ERROR ANALYSIS OF EFL STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN USING SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT

This study aimed to analyze the EFL students’ ability in using Subject-Verb Agreement at second semester students of STKIP Bina Bangsa Getsempena. The researcher used some types of subject-verb agreement to analyze the understanding of the EFL learners in using subject-verb agreement, those are: Singular/Plural, Neither/Either, Collective Nouns, Indefinite Pronoun, Prepostition Phrases, There “be’ and Fractional Expression (Counting). This research employed a descriptive qualitative method. The participants of research was the second semester students of STKIP Bina Bangsa Getsempena that consist of 19 students. The instruments of collecting the data used in this study were the list of questions (test) and interview. The objectives of this research were to know the type of subject-verb agreement errors that were produced by the students and lecturer’s perception towards the students understanding in using Subject-Verb Agreement. The result revealed that the students are still low of the understanding in using subject-verb agreement, difficult to differentiate subject/verb of singular and plural and the most errors that learners produced are commonly about the agreement of sbjcet and verb. The ability of the EFL students in using subject- verb agreement was also showed by the result of the list of questions. Almost all the students produced the errors in answering the list of questions. The dominant errors that students produced are Either/Either, Prepostition Phrases and Indefinite Pronoun.