THE ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN SPEAKING BY STUDENTS OF MADRASAH ALIYAH OF DARUL HIJRAH PUTRA ISLAMIC MODERN BOARDING SCHOOL MARTAPURA

Sari

This study aims to reveal the factors and types of grammatical errors are made by
students at The Islamic Boarding School of Darul Hijrah. Throught this research,
educators or education practitioners are expected To make the results of this research as
a material to identify and solve problems especially grammar and speaking and as a
learning model that can be used, especially for boarding school or madrasah that have
similar characteristics or the same as The Islamic Boarding School of Darul Hijrah. This
study was conducted in a descriptive using qualitative approach at Madrasah Aliyah of
Darul Hijrah Putra Islamic Modern Boarding School Martapura where the eleventh
grade students of Madrasah Aliyah Islamic Boarding School of Darul Hijrah Putra are
sellected as the subject of this research. The data was collected by observation,
interview, and documentation. The result of this research are the students were still
confused in making the agreement between subject and verb, in differentiating whether
to use the definite or indefinite articles, in deciding preposition which preposition
should be used, whether to use in, on, or at. Confused in deciding which pronoun should
be used to substitute nouns, whether it is personal, relative, possessive, or demonstrative
pronouns. The students over generalized the pluralizing of nouns. They just added the -
s/ -es without considering that there are some irregular forms of nouns pluralization.
The students applied rules in forming past time verb to conjunctions. Some factors
caused are he lack of vocabularies and grammar knowledge.