An Analysis of Students’ Error in Using Conditional Sentences Type II at Second Grade of Mas Al-Washliyah Marbau
Abstract
The objectives of this study are to identify and to classify the error types, to find out the occurrence frequency of each error types and to find out the causes of errors of conditional sentence type II in Second Grade of Natural Science in MAS Al-Washliyah Marbau. The method used in this study is qualitative method. The qualitative design applied in this study was case study. This study is also conducted using error analysis procedures started from data collection, identification of errors, description of errors, and explanation of errors. The researcher used the descriptive analysis method in this research to describe students’ errors and analyzed the data by using formula: P = f x 100%. The data were taken from the test. In this study, the data were collected using observation, test, and interview (both teacher’s and students’ interview). The result is known that the students committed four kinds of errors, i.e.: omission, addition, mis-formation and disordering. From those, the students’ errors are mostly in mis-formation. It took 40%. Moreover, 30% errors fell into omission and 22,5% errors fell into addition; whereas, for disordering, it only took 7,5% errors.
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