4 by a senior whose research subjects are students of Business Communication at
Wisma Bahasa, this research is intended to figure out the types of morphological and syntactic errors in spoken English by Micro Teaching students of English
Language Education Study Program, Sanata Dharma University.
1.2 Research Problems
There are problems stated in this research that are formulated in two questions.
1. What are the types of syntactic and morphological errors produced by Micro Teaching students of the academic year 20102011?
2. What are the possible sources of errors made by Micro Teaching students of the academic year 20102011?
1.3 Problem Limitation
This research focuses on two points: 1 the types of syntactic and morphological errors which are produced by Micro Teaching students of the
academic year 20102011; and 2 the possible sources of errors which are produced by Micro Teaching students of the academic year 20102011. Due to the
extent of grammar, the researcher limits the analysis only in the field of both word formation and the construction of utterances. It excludes words selection and
some other types of grammar, such as how constructions derive meaning and how to pronounce words.
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1.4 Research Objectives
Since this research has two research problems, this research has two research objectives as well. The first is to figure out the types of syntactic and
morphological errors produced by the Micro Teaching students of the academic year 20102011. The second objective is to figure out the possible sources or
errors produced by the Micro Teaching students of the academic year 20102011.
1.5 Research Benefits
This research brings benefits for both the respondents and the English lecturers. For the respondents, this research helps the respondents to become
aware of the errors so that they make greater effort to have self error correction of their errors for the betterment. It is expected that they regard grammar as one
important element in speaking as well as in writing. Since ELESP students are candidates of English teachers, they must be able to speak fluently by using
correct grammar in order to be good models for the students. Through analyzing the errors, they are expected not to make the same errors again.
Apart from that, this study is beneficial for the English lecturers related to speaking classes whether it is Interactional Speech I-II, Transactional Speech, or
Public Speaking I-II and of grammar which are Structure I-IV. From the result of the research, it is expected that the lecturers of Structure subject are aware of the
ELESP students’ difficulties on the particular types of grammatical errors and so the lecturers will put some strategies in place to overcome the problems. By their
6 awareness, it is expected that the lecturers will give possible recommendation or
create a strategy to overcome the problems.
1.6 Definition of Terms
