GRAMMATICAL ERROR ANALYSIS ON CONDITIONAL SENTENCES MADE BY THE FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM OF STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF RADEN FATAH PALEMBANG 2018

SYARIFATUL AINI, NIM. 14250107 (2018) GRAMMATICAL ERROR ANALYSIS ON CONDITIONAL SENTENCES MADE BY THE FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM OF STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF RADEN FATAH PALEMBANG 2018. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN FATAH PALEMBANG.

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Abstract

The aims of the study were to identify the type of grammatical errors on conditional sentences that the fourth semester students of English Education Study Program of State Islamic University of Raden Fatah Palembang made, to find out the dominant type of grammatical errors on conditional sentences that the fourth semester students of English Education Study Program of State Islamic University of Raden Fatah Palembang made, and to find out the difficulties on conditional sentences were encountered by the fourth semester students of English Education Study Program of State Islamic University of Raden Fatah Palembang. 28 students participated in this research and were asked to answer 20 questions of conditional sentences in 40 minutes. 6 students were interviewed to know the difficulties encountered in conditional sentences. This study was a descriptive qualitative research design which analyzed the students’ sentences in answering the test based on Surface Strategy Taxonomy by Dulay, Burt, and Krashen (1982). The result showed that there were four types of errors in term of conditional sentences in their answer test, those were omission (28.20%), addition (14.74%), misformation (55.39%), and misordering (1.67%). The dominant type of grammatical errors on conditional sentences made by the fourth semester students of English Education Study Program of State Islamic University of Raden Fatah Palembang was misformation with the occurrence 597 errors with the percentage 55.39%. The difficulties that encountered by students were in using the correct tenses, the correct regular and irregular verb; differentiating type1 and type2, differentiating if-clause and result clause; and identifying the time signal. Keywords: Conditional sentences, error analysis, grammatical error, surface strategy taxonomy,

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