AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF USING AUXILIARY VERBS MADE BY THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY

Abstrak

The purpose of this research was to describe the types of errors made by the second year students of English Department of Bung Hatta University in using auxiliary verbs. The design of this research was descriptive. The population of this research was the second year students of Bung Hata University. The number of population  was 95 students: they were distributed into three classes; class A, class B and class C. The researcher used cluster random sampling technique to get the representative sample. The total number of sample was 35 students.The data of this research were the students’ errors in using auxiliary verbs. The result of the data analysis showed that the students made errors in using auxiliary verbs. It was  proved that 26.30% of students made errors in using  do, 37.00% of students made errors in using Have and 36.70% of students made errors in using Be. Based on the result of data above, it can be said that most of students made errors in using Have and a few of them made errors in using Do.

Key words: Analysis, Auxiliary verbs, Students’ error