Data Description RESEARCH FINDING

21 11 17 - 2 1 31 22 8 4 1 - 1 14 23 14 19 2 - 1 36 24 14 - 14 20 - 48 25 14 - 12 19 1 45 26 12 19 3 - 1 35 27 14 19 1 - 1 35 28 12 19 - - 1 32 29 13 19 - - 1 33 30 13 15 1 3 1 33 31 - 2 - - - 2 32 11 17 - 1 1 30 33 13 19 2 - 1 35 34 12 16 - - 9 37 35 13 15 2 1 - 31 36 11 17 2 2 - 32 37 12 8 8 11 - 39 38 11 14 - 3 - 28 39 6 14 2 - - 22 40 10 16 2 - - 28 Frequency of Error 422 399 163 218 57 1259 Percentage of Error 33,5 31,7 12,9 17,3 4,5 100 The table above shows that the five commonest errors are verb tense with the number of error is 422 errors or 33.5 errors in this case. The second rate of error frequency is auxiliary. The frequency of this error is 399 errors or 31.7 errors. The third rate of error frequency is omission. The frequency of this error is 218 errors or 17.3 errors in this case. The fourth rate of error frequency is word order. The frequency of this error is 163 errors or 12.9 errors in this case. The fifth rate of error frequency is punctuation. The frequency of this error is 57 errors or 4.5 errors in this case. Table 4.2. The List of Recapitulation Result S tudents’ Error in Present Progressive Tense S tud en t Errors T en se s ve rb te n se Auxi li ar y Ve rb Wor d Order Omiss ion Pun ctuation Fr eq u en cy of E rr or 1 - - 6 - 10 16 2 - 1 5 - 9 15 3 - - - - - - 4 - 9 1 - - 10 5 - 1 3 - - 4 6 - - - - - - 7 - - - - - - 8 - 3 4 - 1 8 9 - - 5 - 2 7 10 - 4 2 - - 6 11 - - - - - - 12 - - - - - - 13 - 4 2 - - 6 14 - - - - - - 15 - 1 8 - 1 10 16 - - - - 2 2 17 - - - - - - 18 1 3 2 - - 6 19 - - - - - - 20 - 2 10 - 9 21 21 - - - - - - 22 - - - - - - 23 - 1 - - - 1 24 - - - - - - 25 - - - - - - 26 - - - - - - 27 - - - - - - 28 - - - - - - 29 - - - - - - 30 - - - - - - 31 - - - - - - 32 - - - - - - 33 - - - - - - 34 - - - - - - 35 - - 2 - - 2 36 - 1 2 - - 3 37 - - 11 - - 11 38 - 1 - - - 1 39 - 14 - - - 14 40 - - 1 - - 1 Frequency of Error 1 45 64 34 144 Percentage of Error 0,7 31,3 44,4 0 23,6 100 The table above shows that the four commonest errors are word order with the number of error is 64 errors or 44.4 errors in this case. The second rate of error frequency is auxiliary. The frequency of this error is 45 errors or 31.3 errors. The third rate of error frequency is punctuation. The frequency of this error is 34 errors or 23.6 errors in this case. The fourth rate of error frequency is verb tense. The frequency of this error is 1 error or 0.7 errors in this case. Table 4.3 The List of Recapitulation Result S tudents’ Error in Simple Past Tense S tud en t Errors T en se s ve rb te n se Auxi li ar y Ve rb Wor d Order Omiss ion Pun ctuation Fr eq u en cy of E rr or 1 20 10 9 10 10 59 2 20 10 9 10 10 59 3 20 10 10 10 - 50 4 19 20 3 - - 42 5 20 15 5 5 - 45 6 19 19 - - 3 41 7 20 20 - - - 40 8 20 18 6 2 - 46 9 20 5 5 10 - 40 10 20 8 9 10 1 48 11 - - - - - - 12 18 17 1 1 - 37 13 18 19 1 1 1 40 14 20 20 - - - 40 15 20 10 9 10 2 51 16 11 6 3 3 - 23 17 20 20 - - - 40 18 19 20 1 - 1 41 19 20 20 - - - 40 20 20 17 5 3 10 55 21 20 14 3 5 1 43 22 20 10 9 10 - 49 23 19 19 6 1 - 45 24 16 8 7 8 - 39 25 20 10 9 10 - 49 26 19 18 4 1 - 42 27 20 20 - - - 40 28 18 17 - 1 - 36 29 20 19 - 1 - 40 30 20 20 - - - 40 31 - - - - - 32 20 20 - - - 40 33 18 18 - - - 36 34 18 18 - - - 36 35 18 18 - - - 36 36 18 18 - - - 36 37 20 10 10 10 - 50 38 20 20 1 - - 41 39 20 15 2 - 2 39 40 19 19 1 - - 39 Frequency of Error 727 595 128 122 41 1613 Percentage of Error 45,1 36,9 7,9 7,6 2,5 100 The table above shows that the five commonest errors are verb tense with the number of error is 727 errors or 45.1 errors in this case. The second rate of error frequency is auxiliary. The frequency of this error is 595 errors or 36.9 errors. The third rate of error frequency is word order. The frequency of this error is 128 errors or 7.9 errors in this case. The fourth rate of error frequency is omission. The frequency of this error is 122 errors or 7.6 errors in this case. The fifth rate of error frequency is punctuation. The frequency of this error is 41 errors or 2.5 errors in this case.

2. Data Analysis

After presenting the errors into types of error which are written by Betty Schrampfer Azar and explaining the frequency and percentage of errors in the previous pages, the writer would like to talk more about the common errors in simple present, present progressive and simple past tense. Table 4.4 The Recapitulation of Each Type of Errors in Simple Present, Present Progressive and Simple Past Tense Tenses Errors Ve rb T en se Auxi li ar y Ve rb Wor d Order Omiss ion Pun ctuation Fr eq u en cy of E rr or Perce n tage of E rr or Simple Present Tense 422 399 163 218 57 1259 41.74 Present Progressive Tense 1 45 64 34 144 4.77 Simple Past Tense 727 595 128 122 41 1613 53.48 Frequency of Error 1150 1039 355 340 132 3016 Percentage of Error

38.12 34.45

11.77 11.27

4.37 100

The table above shows that the highest of error goes to verb tense with 38.12. This proves that this verb tense becomes the most difficult grammatical area for the second year of MTs. Al-Khairiyah this one of the examples, “Rika is not gave me a novel two days ago.” The sentence should be “Rika did not give me a novel two days ago.” Some students difficult to change the verb tense especially from verb 2 into verb 1. The second rate is auxiliary verb with 34.45. This error happened because students‟ still did not fully know or understand how to use the certain auxiliary. Some students still using am, is and are in simple past tense. The third rate of error is word order with 11.77. In this problem, some students have not been able yet to order words in right place, for example “They swim every not Friday and Saturday.” It should be “They do not swim every Friday and Saturday. ” The forth rate is omission with 11.27. in this case, some students forgot to put auxiliary. It happened because interference of their mother tongues. The last is punctuation with 4.37. Errors in punctuation indicated that students were careless when writing. They somehow had difficulty in putting the right punctuation such as question mark. 48

CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

A. CONCLUSION

Based on the data analysis and discussion in the previous chapters, the writer would like to make some conclusions. The highest frequency of error made by the students is verb tense with 1150 errors or on percentage 38.12 and as the lowest frequency of error made by the students is punctuation with 132 errors or on percentage 4.37. The data showed that some of students at second year of MTs. Al-Khairiyah have many problems in transforming simple present, present progressive and simple past tense from affirmative into negative and interrogative form especially in verb tense. The errors could happen because the students are still influenced by mother tongue interference. Indonesian has not tenses but English has its own rules. Lack of knowledge in English language can cause the errors and of course teaching learning process. Besides that, they usually take a note about the material but seldom to read and review it at home. The second factor is because they are lack of media to increase their ability in learning English especially tense. The next is because the condition in the classroom doesn‟t support the students to learn, some