AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON THE USE OF GERUND AMONG THE FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

ABSTRACT
This final project mainly aims at determining the main error and finding out the
causes or sources of the errors in using gerunds made by the students of the fourth
semester of the English Department of UNNES in the academic year of 2006/2007.
This study was conducted under the consideration that gerund has a number of types
in the theory so that it is possible that the learners find it difficult to learn the
grammatical structures.

A test method was used to gather data. The test used consisted of two kinds, i.e.
completion test and translation test and had been tried out before it was used to
collect the data. The main purpose of conducting the try out was to measure the
validity and reliability of the instrument. The reliability of the test was 0.376 based on
the Spearman- Brown formula. The test result was then analyzed by using percentage
to determine the main error and find out the causes or sources of errors.
The errors were classified on the basis of six types of gerunds. After computing
the percentages of errors of each heading of gerund, it was found that the dominant
error most often made by the students of the fourth semester of the English
Department of UNNES is the use of gerunds in the negative adjective ‘No’ which
occurred 129 times (69.39%) caused by false concept hypothesized. This means that
the mastery of using gerund in the negative adjective ‘No’ is still low because the
errors were still high.
In conclusion, errors on the use of gerunds were still made by most students of
the fourth semester of the English Department of UNNES in the academic year of
2006/2007. In relation to this, it is suggested that the English learners should be more
careful in using grammar.

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