SPOKEN GRAMMATICAL ERRORS BY STUDENTS IN BILINGUAL PROGRAM OF MA’HAD AL JAMI’AH UIN NORTH SUMATRA

This study deals with the spoken grammatical errors by students in bilingual program of Ma’had Al Jami’ah UIN North Sumatra. The objectives of study are (1) to describe the types of spoken grammatical errors by students in bilingual program of Ma’had Al Jami’ah UIN North Sumatra. (2) to elaborate how the spoken grammatical errors are realized by students in bilingual of in Ma’had Al Jami’ah UIN North Sumatra (3) to describe the assumed reasons of spoken grammatical errors by students in bilingual program of Ma’had Al Jami’ah UIN North Sumatra. The research applies qualitative research design. The data of this study are bilingual students’ utterances in speaking English and Arabic languages consisting of grammatical errors in everyday conversation. Hence, the utterances consisted of words, phrases, clauses and sentences. The source of the data in this study is Ma’had Al Jami’ah UIN North Sumatra students. The research findings show that there are four types of spoken grammatical errors occurred by students namely misformation, omission, addition and misordering. The dominant types of grammatical errors refer to misformation in English and omission in Arabic language. The realization of grammatical errors of speech by students in bilingual program is dominated by intralingual. The reasons of making spoken grammatical errors by students are language transfer and habitual communication.