Questions of the Research

learner, led to a surge of study of learners’ error” 4 . In other words, the study of error is a part of investigation of the process of language learning. Corder also assumed that error analysis, branch of applied linguist activity, has two functions, theoretical and practical aspect. Theoretically, it is used to investigate the language learning process. However, practically, it is used to guide the remedial action. 5 Moreover, Richards stated, “the field of error analysis may be defined as dealing with the differences between the way people learning a language speak and the way adult native speakers of the language use the language”. 6 In other words, it is about the differences of how the native and non-native speaker use or deliver the messages in which its differences should be analyzed to overcome learners’ errors. From those opinions, the researcher concludes that error analysis is the deviation or unwanted form made by the learners because they do not understand the rules of the target language, and the error analysis is defined as the study of learners’ error. In addition, the researcher considers the errors as a language system reflecting the learners’ knowledge, and realizes that by learning the errors the learners will improve their own ability in acquiring the language, because the error actually is a part of learning and learners’ strategies used to learn the foreign language. In other words, it is a language learning process providing the learners a valuable insight in it.

1. The Definition of Er r or

In order to analyze learner’s language in a proper perspective, it is important to distinct between mistakes and errors. Errors and mistakes are the two synonyms, that a little bit have same meaning, but in learning language, these words have different in meaning. There are various definitions of errors and 4 Douglas Brown, Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, 5 th ed ., United States: San Francisco State University, 2007, p. 259. 5 S. P. Corder, Error Analysis and Interlanguage, Great Britain: Oxford University Press, 1981, p. 45. 6 Jack C. Richards, Error Analysis and Second Language Strategies, language Science, 17, 1971, p. 3.