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Sherly Sri Arsifa, 2319045. An Analysis of Factors Affecting Students’ Pronunciation in the Eighth Grade of SMP N 4 Gunung Talang. This study was conducted to find out students' pronunciation skills in speaking assessment and what factors affect students' pronunciation the most. This research has been completed at SMP N 4 Gunung Talang. This research was conducted because students pronounce sentences according to what is written, students do not pay attention to the teacher when learning takes place, and students feel embarrassed when pronouncing sentences in English. This research is a quantitative research with purposive sampling with a sample size of 30 people. To collect research data, researchers used documents and questionnaires. In analyzing the data, researchers analyzed the students' speaking scores and averaged them, for the research questionnaire will be calculated using the percentage formula. From the results of the analysis of the four aspects of speaking namely pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and fluency it was found that the lowest pronunciation score, and from the results of the questionnaire analysis it was found that native language is the dominant factor that most affects students' pronunciation. The findings of this study contain two findings, the first is that students' pronunciation scores were found to be the most problematic of the four aspects of speaking assessment, namely pronunciation, grammar, grammar and fluency, and mother tongue is the factor that most affects students' pronunciation.