An error analysis on the use of causative verbs (a case study at the third grade students of MAN 1 Tangerang)

This research intended to analyze errors made by the Third Grade Students of MAN 1 Tangerang in using causative verbs. Besides of that, this research also intended to obtain and identify the most common type of error made by the students in using causative verbs and to find out the sources or causes of the errors occurrences. The class used as the sample in this research was Third Grade of Science 1 which consisted of 38 students. The method used to describe and analyze the students? errors in this research was descriptive analysis method. The result of this research showed that there are 466 errors of 1140 total of sentences made by the students. The most common type of error made by the students in using causative verbs was miss-selection consisting of 203 errors or 43.57%. Moreover, there are three causes of errors identified in the study, they are: the first, misanalysis with the number of errors is 382 or 81.97%. The second cause of error is incomplete rule application with the number of errors is 66 or 14.16%. And the last cause of error is false analogy with the number of errors is 18 or 3.87%