An Analysis of Grammatical Errors Made by Students in Doing Conversation Using Expression of Agreement and Disagreement at MTsN Parak Laweh Padang

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Abstract

The purpose of this research was to find out grammatical errors made by the students of MTsN Parak Laweh in doing conversation using expression of agreement and disagreement. The design of this research was descriptive research. The population of this research was the second grade students at MTsN Parak Laweh. The total number of population was 234 students. The researcher used convenience sampling as the technique of the sampling. Thirty of students were taken as a sample of the research. The instrument used to collect the data was speaking test in form of conversation. Based on the result of data analysis, it was found that there were four types of grammatical errors that the students made. They are omission errors (70%), addition errors (33,33%), misordering errors (53,33%), and misformation errors (73,33%). There were four types of omission errors that the students made. They are omission of be (50%), omission of article (30%), omission of preposition (10%), and omission of verb (3,33%). In addition errors, there were two types of addition errors that the students made; addition of plural form (10%) and addition of be (20%). There was one type of misordering error that the students made, it was misordering of adjective (50%). The last is there were two types of misformation errors that the students made, they are misformation of be (40%) and misformation of verb (33,33%). It could be concluded that most grammatical errors made by students in doing conversation using expression of agreement and disagreement was misformation errors.

Keywords: Grammatical Error, conversation, expression of agreement and disagreement