Abstract:
The main objective of the thesis is to find out what types of speaking
errors do most the students. Besides, this thesis also aimed to find out what are the
possible causes of the speaking errors are made by the students.
This research is design as descriptive qualitative research. In this study the
researcher focused on the second semester students at English Education Program
of Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo in the academic year of 2013/2014.
There are 39 students as the subject of the research. The process of data collection
in this research had to be put in two activities, those are: observation and
document analysis.
The results of this research showed that Omission is 50,8%,
overgeneralization is 0%, misinformation is 39%, misordering is 10,2%. The most
error made by the Second Semester Students at English Education Program of
Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo in the Academic Year of 2013/2014 is
omission. Whereas, the causes of error done by the students are as follows:
Interlingual Transfer is 33,3%, Intralingual Transfer is 28,6%, Context of
Learning is 14,3%, and Communication Strategy is 23,8%. Finally, the most
causes of error made by the Students is Interlingual Transfer. The students had to
improve their vocabulary, pronounciation, grammar, worthwhile knowledge, and
keep on speaking English.
