STUDENTS’ GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN USING RELATIVE PRONOUN AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE TWELFTH GRADE OF SMAN 8 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018

NOVITA, LINDA (2018) STUDENTS’ GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN USING RELATIVE PRONOUN AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE TWELFTH GRADE OF SMAN 8 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Raden Intan Lampung.

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Abstract

The research was conducted based on the phenomena happened in the school.Grammar is one of important components in English. The students at the twelfth grade of SMAN 8 Bandar Lampung still made grammatical errors especially in relative pronoun. The objectives of this research are to find out the errors done by students in using relative pronoun, and to know the proportion of errors made by students at the first semester of the twelfth grade of SMAN 8 Bandar Lampung in the Academic Year of 2017/2018. The research methodology was used descriptive qualitative. The data were taken from students’ writing task. The population of this research were all the sentences in using relative pronoun made by students at the first semester of the twelfth grade of SMAN 8 Bandar Lampung that consist 132 students. The sample of this research were 311sentences containing errors in using relative pronoun based on Surface Strategy Taxonomy. In this case, the researcher identified and described the errors made by students especially in using relative pronoun, and finally, classified the errors based on Surface Strategy Taxonomy. After that, the researcher calculated the proportion by using percentage formula. The result of the research showed that there are three types of errors in using relative pronoun made by students based onsurface strategy taxonomy. They are misformation, misordering and omission errors. The proportion of errors were 198 items of misformation (63.66%), 111 items of misordering (35.69%), 2 items of omission (0.64%). Furthermore, the researcher found that misformation error was the highest.

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