AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ERRORS IN TRANSLATING INDONESIAN INTO ENGLISH

Abstract

The aims of this research to find the dominant errors made by students in using preposition in, on and at of third grade in Senior High School 1 CIPARAY with the title “An Analysis of Students Errors In Translating Indonesia into English” but the writer limited the research and focuses on preposition of place in, on and at. On the research the writer used descriptive method to find out dominant errors made by students in using preposition of place in, on and at. The writer doing five steps in conducting errors analysis. The first step the writer Collecting the sample of learner, the writer take one class consist 30 students for the sample. The second steps identify the errors, the writer identification of errors involves a comparison between students’ work and native speakers’ in the same contex. The third steps describe the errors made by students based on the result of test and questionnaire. The four steps explaining errors, determining their sources in order to account why they were made. And the finally steps evaluate the errors, error evaluation is a supplementary stage in error analysis. Based on the reasearch 50.63% students made errors in using preposition of place in, on and at. The writer classified the errors made by students based on the type, there are tree type, those are omission, addition and misformation. And the highest number is misformation with 79.64%. The second highest is omission with 18.75%, and the lowest is addition with 1.61%. The writer also classifed the causes errors made by students based on the type, there are tree type, those are carelessnes, first language and translating. The causes of students made is translating with 93.3 %.
Keywords: Steps of Errors Analysis, Type of Errors, Causes of Errors