THE STUDENTS’ PHONOLOGICAL SPEECH ERRORS IN COUNSELING INTERVIEWS

This study investigates the phonological speech errors in counseling interviews based on psycholinguistic. The objectives of this study are to identify types of phonological speech errors occur in counseling interviews, to describe the way those phonological speech errors are produced by the students, and to explain the reason the students produce those phonological speech errors in counseling interview. The research was designed with qualitative descriptive method. The data were taken from the answers’ of the students of junior high school in SMP4 Tebing Tinggi who were counselled. The data were collected by recording, observing, and interviewing the informants. The utterances of the informants were transcribed into written text, classifying the data into types of phonological speech errors, and then drawing conclusion from the text. The analysis of this research was by applying Bokdan and Biklen approach. The finding shows that there are four types of phonological speech errors in counseling interviews; utterances stop, redundancy, mind distraction, and habitual locution.