| The English Dental fricatives are known to be the most difficult sounds for Indonesian learners to produce. One of the main reasons is because the sound does not exist in the Indonesian language. Most of the Indonesian learners of English then tend to mispronounce and/or substitute the phonemes /?/ and /ð/ into other sounds such as [t], [d], and [s]. However, these mispronunciations and/or substitutions of English dental fricatives made by Indonesian learners might be problematic for their interlocutors. The aim of this study is to assess the pronunciation of English dental fricatives produced by 12 Indonesian students of English Education and to determine whether incorrect pronunciation of English dental fricatives is still intelligible according to the judgment of both groups of raters. Three raters in the Inner Circle group were from America, United Kingdom, Australia and three Indonesian teachers of English from the Expanding Circle country, Indonesia, were in the second rater group. Both groups of raters were asked to write the pronunciation of words containing English dental fricatives as they listen to the recordings, secondly the raters were asked to rate the pronunciation with a Likert Scale to determine the intelligibility of the recordings. There were types of tasks in this study, the Words in Isolation, the Sentence Reading task and the Picture Description task.The result of this study shows that the mispronunciation and/or substitution of the English dental fricatives were still intelligible for both groups. The Inner Circle group gave a higher score in correct English dental fricatives pronunciation and the Expanding Circle group gave a higher score for Intelligibility. |