ERRORS IN THE USE OF REPORTED SPEECH MADE BY FIRST - YEAR STUDENTS AT SMUN I PAMEKASAN-MADURA

The purpose of this study is that the writer would like to investigate the kinds of errors specially reported speech made by first-year students at SMUN I Pamekasan . This research design is descriptive. The population of this research is all students of SMUN I Pamekasan-Madura in the first-Year students with seven classes and the samples are sixty-three students. Therefore, the sampling technique of this research is taken by using random-cluster sampling. The instrument used is the form of test. There are two categories of errors. They are global errors and local errors. The highest rank of grammar global errors made by the students is the using of tenses, followed by the using of pronoun, the using of adverb of time and place and the using of conjunction. The highest rank of grammar local errors made by the students is the using of diacritical mark and followed by the using of capital letters. The global errors are more frequent than the local errors