ERROR ANALYSIS ON TRANSFERRING ERROR FOR 8 th GRADE STUDENTS AT SMPN 3 BELITANG

Sopios, Bill. 2022, Error Analysis on Transferring Error For 8th Grade Student at SMPN 3 Belitang.Thesis, English Education Study Program STKIP Persada Khatulistiwa Sintang. Advisor I : Sijono, M.Pd. Advisor II : Ilinawati, M.Pd Keyword : error form, transferring error,translation The background of this study is to analyse the transfer errors and the development of student learning on the translation results of class VIII students of SMPN 3 Belitang in an effort to determine the level of students' ability to translate sentences in English. This study aims to describe the difficulties and forms of errors made by students when translating Indonesian into English. This study applied qualitative research to analyse the data. The subjects of this study consisted of 29 students of grade VII (eight). The data collection tool used documentation. The researcher took documentation from the students' worksheets and analysed them. To analyse the documents, the researcher used coding as a data analysis technique. The results showed that the level of errors made by students was still very significant. The number of errors made by students per category is as follows; linguistic category with 388 errors surface category which consists of four sub-categories namely: omission with 238 errors, addition with 230 errors, misordering with 344 errors, and misformation with 232 errors; comparative taxonomy category which is divided into three namely: developmental with 241 errors, interlingual with 227 errors, and ambiguous with 227 errors; and the last category is comparative impact taxonomy which amounts to 390 errors. In this study, it was found that the total number of errors made by class VIII students at SMPN 3 Belitang was 2517 errors. At the end of this study, the researcher suggested that students of SMPN 1 Belitang can increase their vocabulary in order to translate Indonesian into English better.