AN ANALYSIS ON THE SECOND YEAR STUDENT’S ERRORS IN CONSTRUCTING TAG QUESTIONS AT SMPN 3 MANDAU

The title of this thesis is “An Analysis on the Second Years Student’s Errors in Constructing Tag Question in SMPN 3 Mandau”. It is a descriptive research. In accordance with the phenomena, the students have learnt about Tag Question. However, in studying Tag Question, the students face difficulties to construct Tag Question and they make many mistakes and errors in constructing it. This research is conducted at SMP N 3 Mandau, Duri. The subject of this research is the second grade students of SMP N 3 Mandau and the object of this research is students’ errors in constructing English tag question. The researcher takes 15% of the population and to collect the data needed for this research, researcher uses test, interview and questionnaire. The test is used to find the students’ errors in constructing tag question and it consists of 30 items, meanwhile, interview and questionnaire are used to obtain the factors influencing the students’ errors in constructing tag question. In order to get the description of the answer given by the students, the data is analyzed by using the following formula: Then, in order to know the percentage of errors in constructing tag question, the following formula is used: Finally, based on the result of data analysis, it is found that most of students of SMP N 3 Mandau often made errors in constructing tag question using simple past tense of to be (was, were) with the percentage of 45.50%, simple present tense of verb (do, does) with the percentage of 50.50%, simple past tense of be (did) with the percentage of 45.50%, The second formulation is type of tag question that students seldom make errors in constructing tag question are simple present tense of to be (is, are, am), its percentage is 37.50% and simple present tense of modal auxiliaries with the percentage of 30.50%. If percentage of errors less 40%, it means that the students seldom make errors and if percentage of error more than 40,% it means that the students often make errors. And, the third formulation of the problem regarded to the factors influencing the students’ errors in constructing tag question are low motivation, limited time, intelligence, teachers’ method, class condition, environment, family, and peers