An Error Analysis in Dictation Task of Recount Text Made by Tenth Grade Students of SMA 8 Muhammadiyah Cerme Academic Year 2017-2018

Dictation is one of technique to know student’s ability in listening skill. When students do dictation task, they face a lot of difficulties. They need pay attention on what they heard and they write, because the letter and sound are not correspondence. Therefore, it can cause the students to make error in dictation. Because of that reason, the researcher wants to conduct a study about the students’ errors. This research aimed to investigate some type of errors and causes of errors in the students’ dictation task of tenth grade SMA Muhammadiyah 8 Cerme. This research discussed two research questions; they are; what are the most common errors made by the tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 8 Cerme during dictation? and what are the most common causes of errors made by the tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 8 Cerme during dictation?. This research used descriptive qualitative study approach. To collect the data, this research used documentation and questionnaire. Based on the results of the study, the researcher found that there were 752 error words in dictation task and it is classified into seven types. From the analysis, it also showed that the most common error in dictation occurred in spelling errors with 266 frequencies (27.9 %). The second was wrong word with 262 frequencies (27.5 %). The third was punctuation errors with 152 frequencies (15.9%). The fourth was article error with 141 frequencies (14.8%). The fifth was missing final consonant with 73 frequencies (7.6%). The sixth was confusion of word error with 33 frequencies (3.4%). Last, the least common error occurred to extra final consonant with 25 frequencies (2.6%). In other words, the most common of error was spelling error. Then, based on the result of student’s response, there were 22 or 73.3 % students stated that the causes of error in dictation come from student ‘factor was the ability of students to understand some spoken words and transcribe them into written form. Then, another causes of error in dictation also come from dictation text’ factor. There were 21 or 70 % students stated that the causes of error in dictation from the dictation text’s factor was many unknown words or phrases in the dictation text. Last, there were 18 or 60 % students stated that the causes of error in dictation from teacher factor was unclear pronunciation by teacher