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A.       Introduction The introduction of English to primary school students in Indonesia began officially in 1994, though in teaching English in primary schools in most of the countries of Southeast Asia have taken place over the past few decades. This situation can leave Indonesia behind, especially in accelerating the improvement of human resources as well as the mastery of science and technology. For it, should be emphasized in the development of human resources, because English is a global communications and as a second language. To obtain a second language, we can apply the Natural Approach. The method used to make students rediscover their innate ability to acquire language, to encourage naturalistic language acquisition. The Natural Approach is a philosophy of language teaching proposed by Tracy Terrel, a teacher of Spanish in California. His philosophy which introduced in 1977, has been developed by combining it with Krashen’s theory of second la...

Summary  The Sound Pattern of Language 1.    Phonology Is essentially the description of the system and the patterns of speech sounds in a language. Example: tar, star . 2.    Phonemes Each one of these meaning-distinguishing sounds in a language. Example: fat/vat . 3.    Phones and allophones Phones are phonetic units and appear in square brackets. While allophones is all of which are versions of one phoneme. Example: word “ star ” but say “ tar ”. 4.    Minimal pairs and sets Is phonemic distinctions in a language can be tasted via pairs and sets of word. Example: fan-van .            5.    Phonotactics Exercise involving sets also allows us to see that there are definite patterns in the types of sound combinations permitted in a language. Example: I think Bubba is one v ery i gnorant g uy.            6.    Syllables Is co...