English Misspelling Made by the Seventh Grade Students of MTs Ulumul Qur’an Langsa

It is a common case that English has no close one-to-one correspondence between the letters and sounds. Some words have same letters, but those are pronounced differently. On the other hand, there are some English words which are similar in the way they are pronounced although they are represented in different letter sequences. Thus, getting perfect English spelling is not easy for some people. Because of the English inconsistency, some English words are commonly misspelled into other forms. This study is conducted to observe words misspelled by the seventh grade students of Madrasah Tsanawiyah (MTs) Ulumum Qur’an. The research problems are: first, what kinds of misspelling made by the seventh grade students of Madrasah Tsanawiyah (MTs) Ulumum Qur’an are, and second, why the seventh grade students of Madrasah Tsanawiyah (MTs) Ulumum Qur’an misspell English words. Then, the objectives of this study are to find out the kinds of misspelling made by the seventh grade students of Madrasah Tsanawiyah (MTs) Ulumum Qur’an and to explain why the seventh grade students of Madrasah Tsanawiyah (MTs) Ulumum Qur’an misspell English words. The study applied qualitative approach which took the students’ writing when they were doing test. It means that the study entered to the natural setting and the researcher did not do any experiments.