ERROR ANALYSIS ON USING MODAL AUXILIARIES “MUST” AND “HAVE TO” OF THE FIRST SEMESTER STUDENTS AT POLITEKNIK UNGGUL LP3M MEDAN

Abstrak

This research aimed to find out the errors that the students made in using the modal auxiliary “must” and “have to”. The error analysis was used to analyze the data in this research. There were four categories of errors used in this research; mis-formation, omission, addition and mis-order. Based on the data analysis, it was found that mis-formation errors occurred more which has percentage around 74,39%. There were 21 students who had mis-formation errors in the test given. Then, there was 20,73% of omission errors occurred. There were 18 students who had omission errors. Next, it was 4,87% of addition errors which occurred in this research. There were 5 students who had omission errors. And the last, 0% of mis-order error occurred which meant that there was no student who had mis-order error. The object of this study was the students of AK 1 D class of Politeknik Unggul LP3M Medan who has learnt about the modal auxiliary “must” and “have to”. There were 30 questions given to find out how many errors that the students did. The output of this research is a journal which will be published.