AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN USING SINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUNS IN PERFORMING DIALOGUE AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE SEVENTH GRADE AT MTsN 2 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018

Budiman, M. Faisal (2018) AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN USING SINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUNS IN PERFORMING DIALOGUE AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE SEVENTH GRADE AT MTsN 2 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Raden Intan Lampung.

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Abstract

Speaking English and mastering its grammar are not easy to do for students who are new in learning English because they face different conditions, moreover in Indonesia. There are some ways to talk interlocutor by using English. One of the best ways to improve is by using dialogue. For this reason the objective of this research is to find out the error that students make in singular and plural noun in performing dialogue based on Surface Strategy Taxonomy at the first semester of seventh grade at MTsN 2 Bandar Lampung. This research used qualitative research or purposive sampling research in collecting and analyzing the data. Where the data were gathered from the students and then analyzed in order to draw a conclusion. The subjects of this research are 42 students of the seventh grade in VII I class. This research used documentation as a tool to analyze the error by recorded, listened and transcribed their dialogues. The students had 2 minutes in performing dialogue; the researcher listened the dialogue to analyze, percentage, and classify the error based on Surface Strategy taxonomy. In conclusion, based on the result of the research, it was found the total of the students’ errors were 66 items, there are 43 (65,1%) items of omission error, 19 (28,8%) items of addition error, and 4 (6,1%) items of misformation error. There are many errors that students made in omission, addition, and misformation. Those are indicating students’ speaking ability and an application of grammar especially in using singular and plural noun is still low. Keywords: Singular and Plural Nouns, Performing Dialogue, Qualitative Research.

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