Abstract:
The main objective of this research is to find out dominant spelling errors
and possible causes of those errors in dictation as a testing device of listening
made by the eighth grade students of SMP Asuhan Jaya Medan in the academic
year 2016/2017. More specifically, it aimed to find out the most common kinds of
errors made by the students.
Based on the data, the most frequent of error made by the students was in
Kinds of error which made by students are; 14 or 4.4% errors which caused by
omission, 76 or 42.6% errors which caused by regularization error, 53 or 27.8%
errors which caused by over-generalization,47 or 24.2% errors which caused by
alternating form,5 or 0.5% errors which caused by simple addition, no error that
caused by double marking, and 5 or 0.5% errors which caused by misordering.
The highest percentage of incorrect answers made by the students was 55 % while
the lowest one was 0.5%. There also found four of spelling errors, The data can be
described respectivelyas follows 22 or 22.7% errors which were caused by
clusters, 93 or 41.5% were caused bydiphthong, 45 or 13.8 % errors which were
caused by distinguishing long and shortvowels and 90 or 38 % errors which were
caused by error in recognizing words,phrases and sentences.the researcher also
found two possible causes of those errorsthat is ignorance of rule restrictions. The
data can be described respectively asfollows: 112 or 78.57 % errors which were
caused by transfer, 78 or 21.43% errors werecaused by ignorance rule of
restrictions
