AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ERRORS IN USING ENGLISH PRONOUNS: A CASE STUDY AT NINTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 2 LINGSAR IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018

ANGGRAINI, SILPIA WIWIK (2017) AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ERRORS IN USING ENGLISH PRONOUNS: A CASE STUDY AT NINTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 2 LINGSAR IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018. S1 thesis, Universitas Mataram.

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Abstract

This study is aimed to analyze students’ errors in using English pronouns functioning as; subject,object possessive pronoun and possessive adjective and the factor that contributes to the errors. The method used in this study was descriptivequantitative. Furthermore, the population of this study was the ninth grade students of SMPN 2 Lingsar in academic year 2017/2018 which consists of nine classes; they are IX1, IX2, IX3, IX4, IX5, IX6, IX7, IX8, and IX9. The total sample used was 36 students, I only took IX 7 as the sample. The instrument employed in this research is written test inform of fill in the blank whichconsist of 45 and questionnaire. I used close ended questionnaires to collect the data that consist of 7 statements. After analyzing the answer from students’ test and questionnaire, I found that students made errors on personal pronouns as subject was 30 errors (4,3%), personal pronoun as object was 210 (30,3%), possessive adjective was 186 (26,9%) and possessive pronoun was 267 (38,5%). From that result, it could be concluded that the most ninth grade students of SMPN 2 Lingsar made errors in using possessive pronoun (38, 5%). Besides, the type of errors Misinformation was the dominant type of errors that made by the students with the percentage (79,5%) or 551 errors. It is because they cannot choose the appropriate pronouns in the test. Those errors are caused by carelessness and the interference of students’ mother tongue or it is called interlingual errors.

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Keywords (Kata Kunci): Error, Pronouns
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan
Depositing User: Saprudin Saprudin
Date Deposited: 21 Jan 2019 01:08
Last Modified: 21 Jan 2019 01:08
URI: http://eprints.unram.ac.id/id/eprint/11812

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