Research Design An Error Analysis Of Students’ Ability In Using Gerund (A Case Study At The Second Year Students Of Smk Taman Ilmu Depok)
to answer the research questions. Meanwhile, the primary data to answer the research questions, he used data from the test. Secondly, he analyzed the data.
Next, he described the errors including classifying them into the types of errors, which were presented it in the tables.
To fin d out the effectiveness of error analysis of students’ ability in
learning gerund, the writer used distribution frequency relative or descriptive analysis technique percentage formula. This was adopted from Allan G.
Bluman and described in the table percentage. In the table percentage the writer used the formula:
P = Percentage f = Frequency of each error type
n = Sum of the errors
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The next step is, explained the errors. In this step, the writer explained why errors occured by classifying them into the sources causes of errors, which he
adopted from Jack C. Richard, and then he evaluated the errors. To evaluate it, he used comparative taxonomy to measure the effect of those errors in grammatical
structure and writing aspect. Finally, by looking up the result of the analysis, he drew some conclusions.
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Allan G. Bluman, Elementary Statistics: A Step by Step Approach, 5
th
edition, New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2004, p. 68.
f P =
X 100 n
CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDING