Abstract:
This study deals with An Error Analysis on the Students’ Achievement in Writing
Phonetic Transcription. The objectives of this study are to find out of students
types error in writing phonetic transcription and also to find out the most
dominant kinds of error the students in writing phonetic transcription. The
technique used in this research was a descriptive qualitative research. It had been
done to the semester sixth students of University Muhammadiyah North Sumatera
in the academic year 2016/2017. The researcher finding the types of error made
by students and the most dominant types of error made by students based on
students’ answer the test. The tests were researcher made from the small
paragraph. The findings show that the total of error made by students in
University Muhammadiyah North Sumatera was 1257 errors. The types of errors
and percentage were the addition 392 or arround 31,18%, error of omission was
346 or arround 27,52%, and error of misformation was 519 or 41,28%. Finally,
the most dominant types of error misformation was 519 or 41,28%
