The Students‟ Error in Constructing Plural Form of Noun

Abstract

This research was carried out to investigate The Students’ error in Constructing Plural Form of Noun. The Objectives of the research are 1) To find out the types of error made by students in constructing plural form of noun, 2) To find out the dominant error made by students in constructing plural form of noun. The Method of this research was descriptive quantitative method. The number of population was 42 Students. They were Students of MTs AL-Ikhlas Rimbaya, Kecamatan Na IX - X, Kabupaten Labuhan Batu Utara, Grade VIII 2016/2017 academic year. All of the population was taken as sample of this study. The instrument used to collect the data was a test consists of 20 essay test. The findings showed the occurrences of omission error is 58 or 20.21 %. The occurrences of addition error is 174 or 60.63 %, selection is 55 or 19.16 %, misordering is 0 or 0.00 %, occurrences which totaled 287 occurrences. The most dominant error made by students was addition error is 174 occurrences or about 60.63 %