An Error Analysis on Anomalous Utterances Spoken by Students of Ma'had Al-Jami'ah at Ar-Raniry State Islamic University.

Error analysis (EA) has long been attracting the attention of the researchers and scholars of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) field throughout the world since it has been a prominent area of interest. However, the studies concerning on EA of errors committed by L2 learners that had been conducted in Indonesian setting especially in Aceh are rarely found. This study is carried out with the following aims; to identify the anomalous utterances containing errors that are spoken by the students of Ma’had Al-Jami’ah, to find out the most frequent types of error committed by the students, and also to investigate the causes of errors committed by them. This study adopted the method of qualitative research in form of case study. The writer uses unstructured interview to collect the data from participants. Then, the data are transcribed and the procedures of EA are applied. The samples in this study are 10 current students of Ma’had Al-Jami’ah. They were selected based on their status as current student of Ma’had Al-Jami’ah as well as their availability. The result of this study reveals that error can be classified into five types which are omission, insertion/addition, substitution, mis-information and mis-ordering. Most of participants commit all types or errors, but the results show that the most frequent errors committed by the students belong to the type error omission. Furthermore, it shows that the cause of errors is not merely affected by the interference of mother tongue as L1 but also affected by the complexity of target language rules as L2.
Keywords: Error Analysis; Errors; Anomalous utterances.