AKHMAD HIDAYAT:
English language learning is a process where all aspects of English (listening,
reading, writing, speaking, vocabulary, and grammar) are interconnected.
Consequently, in order for learners to develop their speaking proficiency, all aspects
of languages must be involved. Due to a lack of English exposure in non-English
speaking countries, most learners do not have sufficient opportunity to improve their
oral proficiency in English. However, error analysis has been conducted to identify
strategies which learners use in language learning, to track the causes of learner’s
errors, obtain information on common difficulties in language learning or on how to
prepare teaching materials (Richards et al., 1996:127).
This final project primally deals with error analysis. It describes the
grammatical errors in thesis abstract made by the students of English Department.
The writer used the qualitative approach of which data were obtained from thesis
abstract student of English language teaching department of IAIN Cirebon. The errors
in their speaking were analyzed by following surface structure. According to Dulay,
Burt and Krashen (1982) that specifies four types of errors namely misformation,
misordering, addition, and omission. The methods will be used by the researcher to
get the data in this research is as follows; Documentation; by this method, writer
seeks the data about the error of thesis abstract English students of IAIN Syekh
Nurjati Cirebon. In this research, researcher will do the analyze the datas with the
papers abstract and to find the data about cause of errors.
From the result in Chapter II the writer can conclude that the analysis with 20
papers of thesis abstract. They made 63 phrases when they write thesis abstract.Total
of omission is 11 phrases, addition error is 7 phrases, misformation error is 45
phrases.
From the analyze in Chapter III conclude that possible factors students’ error
is in interlingual errror. Many students made error because their translation and
carelessness, and
also from the intralingual error students such as simplification. It suggested that the
students are still making a lot of grammatical error exactly in misformation, addition,
and omission that are influenced by the lack of students on understanding English
grammar.
Key words:Error analysis, grammatical error, Omission, Addition and
Misformatio