An analysis on errors made by learners in forming irregular plural nouns (a case study at the first year students of M.A. ?Jamiat Kheir? Central Jakarta)
| Main Author: | Muhammad Saugi |
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| Format: | Bachelors |
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Fakultas Ilmu Tarbiyah dan Keguruan
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Daftar Isi:
- Committing errors in language learning is a common thing and thus inevitable, especially for learners of English as a foreign language. Brown defines an error as ?a noticeable deviation from the adult grammar of a native speaker, reflecting the interlanguage competence of the learners.?1 The writer of this ?skripsi? does an analysis on errors found on the learners? tests upon the matter of forming the irregular plural nouns. Vahdatinejad maintains that ?error analysis can be used to determine what a learner still needs to be taught as it provides the necessary information about what is lacking in his or her competence.?2 Accordingly, the writer, then, carries on a descriptive research to identify and further diagnose on what might be the reasons for the learners of the first grade of senior high school ?Jamiat Kheir? Jakarta in committing the errors. There are 17 (seventeen) students taken as the object of this research who take the test as one of the instruments prepared, in addition to personal observation, an interview to an English teacher, and questionnaires for the students to acquire additional description to what likely occurs at the classroom. The analysis of data shows that students committed the errors of word-order and addition. They did errors that are caused by the factor of inter-lingual transfer and the context of learning. The most errors that were made are the nouns that come from Latin or Greek (97.6%) which indicates that most of them do not aware that some nouns words have their typical as well as exceptional forms. Accordingly, it is a must for the teachers to inform their learners of the exceptions to the rule of the language matter which is ungrammatical, to be followed by giving necessary evaluation, especially on the formation of the irregular plural nouns.