Meilinda, Erwin (2021) An Error Analysis of Temporal Clause in The Students’ Writing Skill Among the Tenth Graders at SMA N 1 Seputih Surabaya. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The objectives of this research were to analyze the most dominant error type of temporal clause, to explore the causes of students‟ error in using temporal clauses, and to investigate the solution to solve the students‟ error in using temporal clauses in writing skill. The researcher analyzed those phenomena based on the consideration of the students‟ problem in writing investigated in the process of pre-survey. Therefore, it is hoped that this research is beneficial in illustrating the phenomena of using the temporal clause to encourage writing skill.

The method of this research was qualitative research in the form of a case study carried out at State Senior High School 1 Seputih Surabaya. The primary sources of this research were the tenth graders students‟ of State Senior High School 1 Seputih Surabaya that consisted of 20 students. The researcher used observation, documentation and interview in collecting the data. The observation was conducted to know the most dominant error type of temporal clause in writing skill. The documentation was used to the interview was conducted to investigate the causes and the solutions to overcome of the students‟ error of temporal clause in writing skill of the research objectives.

The findings of this research show that the most dominant error type of temporal clause in writing skill that is temporal subordinators expressing anteriority, that is because the highest percentage (70%) includes that type. In addition, the second research result is about the most dominant factor that causes the students‟ errors is external factors, internal factors, and context of learning. Furthermore, the third research result is about the possible solution to solve the students‟ error is combining sentences, emphasis, sentence fragments, repetition, and punctuation.

Keyword: Analysis, error, type, temporal clause, writing skill, qualitative research

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