The influence of arabic sounds on english pronunciation practiced by indonesian quran teachers

Three English fricatives [θ], [ð], and [ʃ] have been confusing many Indonesian people when they pronounce English words. Even though these three sounds are not present in Indonesian, they are found in Arabic. The goal of the research is to reveal if Indonesian Muslims, who are qualified Quran teachers, can pronounce English words correctly. The subjects of the research are passive English speakers who still get enough English exposure at college. To explore the language phenomenon, a qualitative method is applied in this research. The qualitative method is used to describe and clarify experiences in people’s lives. The research showed from 60 pieces of data involving two subjects, they succeeded in pronouncing 53 English words in total accurately. This phenomenon occurs due to a positive language transfer because Arabic can facilitate their English pronunciation.