Errors in Spoken Production Made by Students of Department English Education of Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta in 2014/2015 Academic Year
Daftar Isi:
- The aim of this research is to describe the types of error, the frequency of error, the dominant error, and the source of error in spoken production made by students of Department English Education of Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative research. In collecting data, the writer watches, observes then writes the scripts of the videos of microteaching class. The writer uses theory of Clark and Clark to analyze speech error and found six types of them, namely: filled pause, silent pause, repeats, correction, stutter, and retraced false start. From the data, the research found 420 error utterances that consist of 339 utterances or 80,72% of speech error, 60 utterances or 14,28% in morphological error, and 21 utterances or 5% in syntactical error. The writer found 29 utterances containing silent pause or 6,90% of silent pause, 219 utterances containing filled pause or 52,15%of filled pause, 69 utterances containing repeats or 16,43% of repeats, 7 utterances containing corrections or 1,67% of corrections, 7 utterances containing stutters or 1,67% of stutters, and then 8 utterances containing retraced false starts or 1,90% of retraced false starts, 46 utterances or 10,95% of vocabulary errors, 14 utterances or 3,33% of errors in the selection of words, 10 utterances or 2,38% of omission of bound morpheme, 6 utterances or 1,43% of addition of bound morpheme, 5 utterances or 1,19% of omission of to be. The dominant error is speech error especially filled pause. The writer finds two sources of error. The first is cognitive reason where the speakers need brain processing where information is processed to utter by speech. The second is psychological reason that happens when the speakers feel anxious, nervous, in hurry or other that can affect the speakers to be confident or un-confident that makes them difficult to produce speech. Keywords: speech production, speech error, grammatical error