AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ERRORS IN MAKING QUESTION TAGS AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE EIGHTH GRADE OF MTs N 1 LAMPUNG SELATAN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018

NURAFIFAH, HAZSOFIA (2018) AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ERRORS IN MAKING QUESTION TAGS AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE EIGHTH GRADE OF MTs N 1 LAMPUNG SELATAN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Raden Intan Lampung.

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Abstract

This research was aimed to analyze the errors made by the first semester students of MTs N 1 Lampung Selatan in making question tags. More specifically, it was aimed to know kinds of errors made by the students in making question tags and to find out percentage of each kind of errors made by the students in making question tag. The population of this research was the students of the eighth grade which consist of 249 students. The sample of this research was 40 students that was taken by purposive sampling technique, which had the lowest score because the students still have difficult in making question tags. This research was conducted based on descriptive qualitative research. The instrument was documentation. The data was gained from the students’ writing task in making question tags, in which the students should make question tags based on 3 part they were; simple present tense, simple past tense and modals (will and can). Each part consist of 4 items, so the total item task were 12 numbers. Then, they were analyzed based on surface strategy taxonomy that has 4 errors classification, they were omission, addition, misformation and misordering. After analyzing the data, it was found that many students’ errors in making question tag. From 480 sentences, there were 80 incorrect sentences. From 80 incorrect sentences, there were 02.00% of Omission error, 01.00% of Addition (Simple Addition), 93.00% of Misformation (Alternating Form) and 04.00% of Misordering error. So in this research was found that Misformation in Alternating Form was the highest error that was made by students in making question tags..

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