students were verb tense, vocabulary, articles, word class, spelling, singularplural, and the last, punctuation. Second, from the interview with the
teacher, what the teacher could do to improve students ’ descriptive writing were
doing repetitions and drilling continuously for the writing exercises until 85 of the students mastered them.
This study is about errors analysis of using preposition which is made by tenth graders of SMA 1 Sapuran, Wonosobo. In this research, the researcher
attempts to investigate the preposition errors which are commonly made by tenth grade students of SMA 1 Sapuran, Wonosobo. Moreover, the researcher also tries
to investigate the causes of error made by the students. It is because the researcher consideration that each learner is unique and they probably result differently in
writing. Since the researcher only as an analyzer, the researcher did not give a judgment of the result of the research. The researcher only presented the result
which was found during the research based on the students ’ writing assignments,
the result of the questionnaire and the result of interview. The researcher chose SMA 1 Sapuran, Wonosobo because of the location
of SMA 1 Sapuran, Wonosobo which is reachable and also because it is the best senior high school in Sapuran. Most of the students in SMA 1 Sapuran, Wonosobo
are from rural area in Sapuran and they have well enough academic quality.
B. Problem Formulation
Based on the topic of the research, the problem formulation can be stated as follows.
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1. What are preposition errors commonly made by tenth grade students of SMA
1 Sapuran? 2.
What are the causes of errors in using preposition made by tenth grade students of SMA 1 Sapuran?
C. Problem Limitation
This research is limited on students’ preposition in writing skill only. The
researcher focuses on students’ writing product based on topic of students’ writing assignment.
This research is conducted at SMA 1 Sapuran, Wonosobo. The research subjects are tenth grade students of SMA 1 Sapuran, Wonosobo because in this
level, students still use improper preposition in their writing. The tenth grade students have lack of vocabulary to choose proper prepositions to make a
meaningful writing based on the topic they discussed.
D. Research Objectives
The research was held in order to find out two objectives. The following are the objectives of the research.
1. To find out the forms of preposition are errors which are made by the tenth
grade students of SMA 1 Sapuran, Wonosobo. 2.
To find out the causes of errors made by tenth grade students of SMA 1 Sapuran, Wonosobo.
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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.
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