AN ANALYSIS ON STUDENTS’ ERRORS IN USING DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH IN SENTENCES AT SIXTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF STAI HUBBULWATHAN DURI

Based on the researchers’ observation, it was found that most of the students get difficult in using direct and indirect speech of statement. They get difficult to change tenses, pronoun and adverb of time from direct into indirect speech. So, the researchers were interested in carrying out research based on this problem. The objective of the research is to find out kinds of error in using direct and indirect speech and cause of the errors. The design of this research was descriptive quantitative. There is 1 class at sixth semester of STAI Hubbulwathan Duri. The Population consisted of 19 students at the sixth semester of STAI Hubbulwathan Duri. The researchers use the sixth semester class (19 students) as sample. The researchers gave written test by 10 items. And then test result was presented in the form of tables and picture to make it easier to understand. To know the steps taken in conducting an error analysis, the researchers use steps to classify and to quantify errors. After analyzing the data, the researchers found the kind of errors which made by the students and the cause of the error