An anlysis on the students’ error in placing punctuation in text at Grade viii SMP N 8 Padangsidimpuan

Erdiani, Dian (2013) An anlysis on the students’ error in placing punctuation in text at Grade viii SMP N 8 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research is about analysis of the students’ error in placing punctuation in text. This research is purposed to know error types are made by SMP students in placing punctuation based on Surface Strategy taxonomy, to know the common errors made by the students in placing punctuation and to know the efforts of English Teacher in overcoming the difficulties in SMP N 8 Padangsidimpuan. The kind of this research is qualitative research by using descriptive method. The instruments of collecting data are observation,test and interview. The source of data is the grade VIII students, the English teacher, and Headmaster of SMP Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan. Based on the result of test given, it is found that most students made errors in placing punctuation in text. Based on the total errors ((290 eroors) for writing test that the students made, the highest percentage of errors belong to substitution type (42,1%) and the lowest percentage of errors is misordering type (2,3%).

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