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ABSTRACT
The tittle of this thesis is “ANALISIS KESALAHAN PELAFALAN NADA ATAU SHENG DIAO DALAM BAHASA MANDARIN”. Sheng Diao often translated as “tone” in English and used to differentiate in meaning. Most students have difficulties in using those tones. The writer focuses on the usages of those tones to find out types and causes of error in using those tones. Writer uses descriptive qualitative as method of analysis. This thesis uses Tarigan theory of Error Analysis in language learning. Data of research are collected from the testgiven to the students of SMA F.TANDEAN. The results shows types of error and causes of error as made by the students.
Keywords: error analysis, chinese, tones
