Father hangs the picture above the mirror. 9
Location inat the rear of something e.g. They hide behindin back of the door.
10 Location adjacent
e.g. I sit next tobeside him.
B. Theoretical Framework
It is obvious that now English becomes a compulsory subject for senior high school in Indonesia‟s education curriculum. It shows that English has been
taught for several years to the students since they were in junior school or even in elementary school. However, the students still obtain some difficulties in learning
English, especially in grammar. Most of senior high school students obtain difficulty when they try to express their opinion or thought in the writing form.
Their problem is applying appropriate words, especially prepositions, based on the form of prepositions that they use in their writing. Preposition is a part of English
grammar and it has its own underlying them. Based on the difficulties of students in applying preposition in their
writing, the researcher gave more attention in the errors in preposition which students made in their writing. In this research, the writer wanted to investigate
the kinds of prepositions errors made by tenth grade students of SMA 1 Sapuran, Wonosobo and also to investigate the possible causes of prepositions errors made
by the students. The data were collected from the students is about recount writing. In analyzing the students‟ recount writing, the researcher used types of
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errors proposed by Dulay 1982 to identify the preposition errors in students‟
writing assignments and forms of preposition classification proposed by Greenbaum and Quirk 1990 to classify the preposition errors which the
researcher found in students‟ writing assignments. The forms of preposition consist of four classification of preposition form such as Place and Position,
Direction and Motion, Time, and Manner, Agent, and Instrument. After analyzing the data, the researcher classified the errors and then counted the errors. To
investigate the possible causes of errors, the researcher applied theory from Norrish 1983:21.
The researcher also conducted interview, and distributed a set of questionnaire to tenth grade students of SMA 1 Sapuran, Wonosobo to obtain
more information about possible causes of errors. The last, the researcher reported the result of the research and draw a conclusion of what had been analyzed.
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