ANALISIS KESALAHAN BERBAHASA PADA PENULISAN CERITA FABEL OLEH SISWA KELAS VIII E DI SMP 2 MUHAMMADIYAH SURAKARTA

Abstract

This research studies about language errora in writing a fable essay by the students of VIII E at SMP 2 Muhammadiyah Surakarta. This research has four objectives: (1) identifying types of error in a fable essay made by students of VIII E of SMP 2 Muhammadiyah Surakarta; (2) describing the frequency of each error type in a fable essay made by the students of VIII E of SMP 2 Muhammadiyah Surakarta; (3) explaining the most dominant error in writing a fable essay by the students of VIII E of SMP 2 Muhammadiyah Surakarta; and (4) explaining the source of language errors done by the students of VIII E of SMP 2 Muhammadiyah Surakarta. The type of this research is descriptive-qualitative. Data of this research were sentences which contained language errors collected from fable essays written by the students. The research used error analysis as the methodological framework. From this research, it can be seen that language errors done by the students of VIII E of SMP 2 Muhammadiyah Surakarta in writing fable essays were 57 errors. The result showed that there were 3 types of error out of 57 data. Those language errors consist of 33,33% phonological error; 14,03% morphological error; and 52,63% syntactical error. The most dominant type of error is syntactical error which is 30 errors or 52,63% of error. The researcher also found 2 dominant sources of language error, they were interlingual transfer and intra-lingual transfer.