Abstract :
This research aimed at finding out: the types of adverb of error made by
the tenth grade students of MA Al-Fatah Palembang. The method of this research
was qualitative research by using case study approach. There were 38 tenth grade
students of MA Al-Fatah Palembang that were given a test. In this test, there were
50 sentences which contained adjective words. Those adjective words had been
provided in the brackets beside sentences. Then, those students were asked to
change adjective words into adverb of manner words. In analyzing, identifying,
and describing the data, thematic analysis was used in this research. Then, in
deciding themes in thematic analysis, deductive approach was used. It was used to
categorize the themes based on the theoritical framework or approach based on
existing theory. Furthermore, the theory which was used was based on surface
structure taxonomies from Dulay, Burt and Krashen (1982). Based on the result of
this research, there were four types of adverb of manner error made by the tenth
grade students of MA Al-Fatah Palembang which were found. They were
omission error, addition error, misformation error and misordering error.