Definition of Terms INTRODUCTION

E. Research Benefits

The findings of the research will be useful for the teachers as a consideration to determine the strategy to improve students’ knowledge in using preposition in order to help students in choosing proper words in their writing task to make a good writing. The teachers can give information to the students to use proper prepositions based on the context or situation of the writing by explaining them how to use English preposition and giving examples the correct preposition in a sentence. The teacher also can improve their teaching technique in order to obtain students’ attention to learn English prepositions by using interesting media in teaching learning process. The research findings are not only beneficial for teachers in tenth grade of SMA 1 Sapuran, Wonosobo, but also for the students. The students can learn the forms of prepositions and how to use it in order to ease them to choose proper prepositions in their writing. The students also know the proper preposition in some variations and in some forms such as, place and position, time, manner, agent, instrument, direction and motion.

F. Definition of Terms

There are some important definitions of terms related of this study. Those are as follows. 1. Errors Errors are any devation from a selected norm of language performance, no matter what the characteristics or cause of the deviation might be Dulay, 1982: PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 139. Many people assume that errors are the same as mistake, but actually they are different. Mistakes are performance errors caused by factors such as fatigue and inattention Dulay, 1982: 139. Norrish 1983:8 also stated that mistakes happens when a learner makes inconsistent deviation, sometimes the learner get it right but sometimes he or she uses the wrong form, in fact he or she has known the right form. In this research, errors refer to students’ deviation in choosing proper preposition based on the writing context. In this research, the researcher did not differentiate between errors and mistakes. All improper prepositions which are found in this research are considered errors. 2. Preposition Preposition is a word that has function to relate a noun phrase to another unit Curme 1947: 65. In this research, preposition refers to a word that express a certain relationship between a noun phrase and another unit such as time e.g. before the show, place and position in front of the class, direction and motion into the bucket and manner, agent, and instrument with my teeth. 3. Tenth grade students of SMA 1 Sapuran, Wonosobo This refers to the students in the first grade of senior high school. The age range of the students is about 15-16 years old. In this research, they are students in SMA 1 Sapuran, Wonosobo. SMA 1 Sapuran, Wonosobo is located in Jalan Purworejo km 2, Sapuran, Wonosobo, Central Java. It is one of the favorite schools in Sapuran. There are five parallel classes in each level with total number of students is about five hundred students. Each class consists of more or less thirty students. SMA 1 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI Sapuran, Wonosobo has some facilities to support the teaching learning process, such as laboratory, library, computer media, basket field, and so on. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 9

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE