An Error Analysis on the Students’ Achievement in Writing Phonetic Transcription

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%