AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF ARTICLES IN PARAGRAPH WRITING OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF UIN PROF. K.H. SAIFUDDIN ZUHRI PURWOKERTO

This thesis is written to achieve some objectives as follows: (1) to find out the types of errors in article made by third semester of English Department Students, (2) to find out the most common errors in using article. The method used in this study is descriptive method. The research was carried out at UIN Prof. K.H. Saifuddin Zuhri Purwokerto, on 30 November 2021. It is 10 students from third semester. The instrument used to collect the data was essay writing. The whole primary data were classified based on the type of errors and then they were explained. The research finding shows the type of error that the students often made in article is miss formation error. The percentages of each error are, 1) omission (0,76%),(2) addition (0,1%) and therefore the last (3) substitution (0,13%). The source of error that found in this research are both inter lingual errors and intra lingual errors