Error Analysis Of Students’ Speaking Ability On Dialogue

Abstract

The aimed of this research was to know the types and the causes of errors which made by the students in speaking ability on dialogue. This research was the qualitative research which used transcript instruments from the results of students’ speaking with the sample was the tenth grade students of SMA Swasta Imelda Medan which consisted of 20 students. The results of students' speaking transcription would be examined to find out the types of errors often appeared while speaking on dialogue. And for the causes, the researchers used the transcript result interview to find out the causes of errors which made by the students while speaking on dialogue. The results of this research showed the types of errors in students’ speaking ability that divided into; speech error, morphological error, and syntactical error. As the result, it was 16% with total 27 errors in speech error; the researcher found 6 of 9 errors: silent pause was 8, filled pause was 1, repetition was 10, slip of tongue was 2, false start (unretraced) was 2, and false start
(retraced) was 4. In morphological error was 67% with total 113 errors: error in pronunciation was 106, error in vocabulary was 1, and error in word selection was 6. Syntactical error was 17% with total 28 errors include: omission was 21, addition was 3, and misordering was 4. This problem influenced by cognitive and psychological factors. In cognitive reason the students felt lack of pronunciation mastery, lack of vocabulary, and lack of grammar, in phsycological reason the students were felt nervous, anxious and lack of confidence.