The Analysis of Grammatical Errors in Speaking Class at the Second Semester Students of Purworejo Muhammadiyah University in the Academic Year of 2015 / 2016

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.