Error analysis of using past verbs in writing short story at grade VII SMP Muhammadiyah 30 Sihepeng Kecamatan Siabu Mandailing Natal

Yani, Rukiah (2017) Error analysis of using past verbs in writing short story at grade VII SMP Muhammadiyah 30 Sihepeng Kecamatan Siabu Mandailing Natal. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The aims of this research were to know the students omission error, addition error, misformation error, and misordering error in using past verbs in writing short story, and to know the teacher’s effort to prevent students error in using past verbs in writing short story at grade VII SMP Muhammadiyah 30 Sihepeng. The kind of this research was quantitative research by using descriptive method. The sources of the data were students at grade VII1 which consist 20 students, and English teacher. The instrument of collecting data was test and interview. The technique of data analysis used formula P = f/ N x 100 %. After the research was done, the researcher took conclusion as follows: based on the surface structure taxonomy, there are four types of error, they are: error in omission type was 17 cases (6.64 %), then, error in addition type was 239 cases (93.36 %), and there was no error in misformation and misordering. So, the total of students error in using past verbs in writing short story was (256 errors). The most dominant type of students error was error in addition type with 239 cases (93.36%). The teacher’s effort to prevent students error in using past verbs in writing short story was: the English teacher often repeat the lesson about using past verbs in writing short story and give more explanations and examples that related to students experience and sometimes the teacher made example with Indonesian Language, the English teacher must use a media that suitable with the lesson to support the process of teaching and learning English, the English teacher ordered the students to memorize verb such as, present tense, past tense, past participle, the English teacher gave some tests, exercises for students, the English teacher ordered the students to study hard and practice.

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