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eaten ” is completely different in meaning from the sentence “It has been eaten.”
The former is an active sentence whether the latter is a passive one and the use of the former to mean to say the latter will distract the message intended to deliver.
Distraction in the delivery of a message can lead to misunderstanding. The researcher chose to carry out a research in the Microteaching class
organized by the English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University in the academic year 20102011. One reason to choose the
Microteaching class was that the students enrolled in the course were those who in general had taken all the Structure classes. In addition, the students were being
prepared for teaching in schools. It means that, as mentioned previously, they were the students who were supposed to be a model of someone using appropriate
grammar. She researched the students’ speech when they practice teaching. She focused on the verb phrase errors in their speech and then she analyzed them.
B. Research Problems
There are three problems formulated and they are presented as follows. 1. What are the verb phrase errors that Microteaching students have made in
their speech? 2. What are the causes of the errors that the students have made in their speech?
3. What are the suggestions for coping with the error production?
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C. Problem Limitation
The researcher limited her research by choosing the Microteaching class in the ELESP in the academic year 20102011. The reason to choose the class was
that simply it was the Microteaching which was being run at the time the researcher decided to conduct her research. The reason to choose them was that
they were representative of students who have taken all Structure classes, at least once. In addition, they were preparing themselves for Program Pengalaman
Lapangan PPL, in which they would teach Junior High School and Senior High
School students. Through the study, the researcher investigated only the errors related to
English verb phrases. The reason for the researcher to focus only on these errors was that the researcher believed that verb phrases were crucial. The errors in this
part were bad examples for students and might bother other people who understand English grammar. In addition, the errors might result in
misunderstanding.
D. Research Objectives
The researcher has formulated the problems previously. Based on those problems, the researcher formulates the objectives of this research, namely to find
out: 1. The verb phrase errors that Microteaching students have made in their speech.
2. The causes of the errors that the students have made in their speech. 3. The suggestions for coping with the error production.
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E. Research Benefits
After analyzing the grammatical errors in the use of verb phrases that the students make in their speech as well as the causes of and suggestions for coping
with the errors, this study is hoped to be beneficial for: 1. The lecturers of the English Language Education Study Program of Sanata
Dharma University Quality is one thing that is offered by the English Language Education
Study Program of Sanata Dharma University to the students. No doubt this is closely related to the role of the lecturers. It is expected that after realizing those
errors and the causes and suggestions for coping with the problem, the lecturers will pay more attention to the difficult parts of verb phrases, the material in which
students often make mistakes. The awareness can make the lecturers motivated to find teaching strategies which can help the students better their grammar. The
results of the research can be valuable information for the lecturers to help them solve their students’ problems.
2. The students of the English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University
It is expected that after realizing the errors students frequently make and the causes, the students of the ELESP of Sanata Dharma University, especially
those who will teach English to others, be motivated and learn to better their own grammar by trying to minimize the same errors in the use of verb phrases. They
will know the errors which they are likely to produce and the causes so that they
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realizing those parts will improve their learning. 3. Future researchers
It is expected that the results of the research will be valuable information for the future researchers who are interested in researching similar phenomenon or
problem. The knowledge of the researchers who want to conduct another similar research or continue the research will be enriched. They can use any information
they need from the research to help them or guide them to conduct some similar researches.
F. Definition of Terms
