Analyzing Prepositional Errors in Place Usage in the Writing of Seventh Grade Students at SMP Budi Murni 2

Abstract

English language has four skills which are speaking, writing, reading and listening. Indonesian language learners consider writing skill is the most difficult in English, they tend to do errors when they write. The objectives of this writer were 1) to find out the types of errors of preposition of place in writing made by eleventh grade students of SMP Budi Murni 2 (2) to find out the dominant type of error of preposition of place in writing made by eleventh grade students of SMP Budi Murni 2. This research was a descriptive qualitative writer which was describing the reality behind the phenomenon statically and descriptively. The sample was 30 students taken from 87 number of populations by using simple random sampling. To collect the data of this writer, the writer the instrument of collecting data for this writer was the composition. The students choose one of the following these topics: My Holiday, My favourite place, and My favourite room, in ninety minutes. This research analyzed the students’ writing based on types of error. This writer revealed: The eleventh-grade students of SMP Budi Murni 2 as sample contributed three types of errors on the use of preposition of place in their writing, those were, (1) omission of preposition (9.72%), (2) insertion of preposition (31.95%), and (3) selection of incorrect preposition (58.33%). The writer concluded the dominant type of error of this writer was error of selection of incorrect preposition with the percentage 58.33% and the occurrence 42.