Previous Studies

Dental ficative studies have been conducted by several researchers.

The first previous study was from Owalobi, Dare (2012) entitled Production
and Perception Problems of English Dental Fricatives by Yoruba Speakers of
English as a Second Language. This study aimed to find out the difficulties that
was faced by adult learners of English as a Second Language of the sound
production of the dental fricative which does not exist in Yoruba language
phonology. To conduct the research, the researcher used unobtrusive observation
method as a classroom teacher. The instrument of the research was a text that
comprised words of dental fricative. The study result discovered that despite
Yoruba speakers of English as a second language had production problem of dental
frivative pronunciation, they seems do not have problem with perception because
mutual intelligibility was still attained, notwithstanding the miss pronunciation of
these sounds.

The second previous study was from Guntari (2013) about Sundanese
Students’ Production Of English Dental Fricative Consonant Sounds. The study
was carried out to examine the level of acceptability and to find out the possible
factors which affected the dental fricative sounds production. This research design
was qualitative research. The study used 700 sentences comprising four consonant
of dental fricative for data collections. Then, Students’ sound production were
judged by English native speaker. The results showed that the level of acceptability
of students’ dental fricative sounds production was low, only 13.80% on average.
The [f] sound acceptability was the highest with 45.56%, the [v] was the second
highest with 5%. The [θ] sound was 2.78% and the sound [ð] was 1.88%. All and
all, sundanese dental fricative sounds production was judged as not clear by native
speaker.

The third previous study was the research that have been conducted by
Mnao (2015) entitled Production Of The English Dental Fricatives By The English
Learners At Bali Star Academy. The purpose of the study was to find out and to
analyze dental fricative sound production of Indonesian studends in Bali Star
Academy. The research design was descriptive qualitative. In gathering the data,
the researcher recorded the sound and then transcribed them. The result of the study
revealed that 66% dental fricative sound could be produced well, notwithstanding
dental fricative sounds do not exist in Indonesian phonology system.

To sum up, the previous studies about dental fricative research wasre
conducted to find out how the way people pronunce the English dental fricative
sounds that do not exist in their language sounds. There are similarities between
previous studies and the researcher’s such as using same purpose, research design,
and instrument. Also there is a difference, such as the sample. The previous study
used university and senior high school student level as the sample but the researcher
will use Junior High School student as the sample.