Students’ Error Analysis in Completing English Math Story Problems

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201230.069How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Error analysis, Story problems, English language

Abstract

Students will feel more difficult in dealing with story problems as they not only must determine the formula but also must be more aware in reading the questions to gain information as well as to identify what is asked in the questions. Language is a medium for communication or interaction, in other words, a language is a tool for conveying thought, idea, concept, or feeling. The English language is an international language. Most schools in Indonesia, particularly located in the urban area use English in their learning process. Many students do not master English so that they have difficulties in comprehending the lesson. This research is carried out at SMK Al Ihsan Depok with 30 students as samples. The method used in this research is a descriptive method by examining the quantitative approach to identify the total of students’ errors and qualitative approach to define the position of students’ errors as well as to identify the factors contributing to errors. The technique of data collection uses documentation, test, and interview. The results of the research point out that students’ errors are as follows: (a) Determine problems that are acknowledged in the questions, (b) Determine problems that are asked, (c) Make Math model, (d) Select an appropriate formula that is suited to the questions, © Do the calculation, (f) Interpret model’s answer to the former problem, (g) Make sentence meanings into Bahasa Indonesia. And contributing factors are: (a) Students are not careful in reading the question to get on its meaning, (b) Students are poor in the Math basic calculation, (c) Students feel hurried in completing the questions, (d) Students are lack of English vocabulary in the subjects of Statistics and Probability.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Bambang Perkasa Alam
AU  - Ukti Lutvaidah
AU  - Prima Pantau Putri Santosa
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/31
TI  - Students’ Error Analysis in Completing English Math Story Problems
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Folklore, Language, Education and Exhibition (ICOFLEX 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 370
EP  - 374
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201230.069
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201230.069
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