Abstract:
The objectives of this research are determining students’ error in speaking
class and finding out the dominant error. This study was conducted under
consideration that speaking plays important role in communication. This thesis has
three objectives. First, it is to find out the kinds of grammatical errors in speaking
class made by second semester students of Purworejo Muhammadiyah University in
the academic year of 2015/2016. Second, it is to find out the source of errors in
speaking class made by second semester students of Purworejo Muhammadiyah
University in the academic year of 2015/2016. Third, and it is to find out the
dominant error.
This research uses descriptive qualitative as the research design. The subject
of the research was the second semester students of Purworejo Muhammadiyah
University in the academic year of 2015/2016 in speaking class. The instrument that
the researcher uses to collect the data is transcript of the students’ utterance taken by
recording in speaking class of second semester. In analyzing data, the researcher
classifies the students’ errors into omission, addition, misformation, and misordering
error based on Surface Taxonomy Strategy and based on the source of error into
interlingual, overgeneralization, false concept hypothesized, incomplete application
rule, ignorance of rule restriction. The result of the study shows that almost all
students make four error types, even though in the different percentage. The numbers
of those errors percentage are as follows: omission 37%, addition 14.1%,
misformation 33.5%, and misordering 16.2%. The numbers of caused of errors
percentage are as follows: interlanguage error 16.8%, over-generalization 5.1%
ignorance of rule restriction 34.4%, incomplete application rule 35.9%, and false
concept hypothesized 7.7%. It is concluded that the dominant error made by the
students in speaking class is misformation and the cause is ignorance of rule
restriction.
Based on the result of the research, it is suggested that the second semester
students of Purworejo Muhammadiyah University should be given more explanation
about grammar.
