AN ANALYSIS OF ERROR AND DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED BY ENGLISH LEARNERS IN USING RELATIVE PRONOUNS

Nesya, Putri Santika (2023) AN ANALYSIS OF ERROR AND DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED BY ENGLISH LEARNERS IN USING RELATIVE PRONOUNS. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Adjective clause was an essential item to understand because it concerned to a clause or sentence that played an important role in English language. But, adjective clause still became one of popular problems in English that interesting to be examined because of the difficulties. The students were less interested in learning grammar especially adjective clauses because it had relative pronoun which had different function and usage. The purpose of this research on error analysis in the use of relative pronouns was to identify the type and frequency of errors in the use of relative pronouns, as well as to analyze the factors that influencing the occurrence of these errors. The method of this research was qualitative research to describe the types of error in using relative pronouns. In the research were used a test, interview, and observation on relative pronouns as an instruments to obtain the data. The result of the data analysis showed that many students made errors in completion items, there were 160 errors in the overall test for 39 students with a total of 25 questions related to the relative pronouns of the adjective clauses (who, whom, whose, which). There were 160 errors, the most errors were in the relative pronouns of the adjective clauses, namely "who" with 49 errors or 30.6%. Most of the students did not understand the relative pronouns of the adjective clauses due to the motivation factor, they were lazy to practice more. Students could not distinguish the function of each type of relative pronouns of the adjective clauses (who, whom, whose, which). Keywords: Adjective Clause, Error Analysis, Grammar, Relative Pronouns, Student

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