ThesisOpen AccessMetadata saja
2021•
This research was conducted to (1) identify and describe the types of errors in narrative text made by the fourth semester students majoring in English education at the Borneo Tarakan University (UBT); (2) find out the frequency of types of the errors; (3) identify and describe the sources of the errors. The subjects of this study were 29 third semester students. Data were collected by asking the students to write narrative text with the given topics. To get information about possible causes of the errors, 6 students were interviewed. The results showed that there were totally 140 errors found in students’ writings which were analyzed using Surface Strategy Taxonomy. They consisted of 55 omission errors, 62 addition errors, 17 formation errors, and 6 placement errors. Meanwhile, based on the comparative analysis taxonomy, 77 errors were caused by developmental factor, 25 errors by interlingual factor, 29 errors by ambiguous factor, and 9 errors by other factors. In conclusion, the students’ grammatical errors were due to their lack of grammar understanding and the influence of indonesian structure in the process of learning English.
ThesisOpen AccessMetadata saja
2021•
The purpose of this study was to assess the types of grammatical errors and the most common grammatical errors made by seventh-grade students in SMPN 5 Tarakan in writing descriptive text. The subjects of this study were 30 seventh-grade students. The data were collected by asking the students to write a descriptive text on the given topics. The data were analyzed using statistics and descriptive analysis. The result of the study showed that there were sixteen grammatical errors, namely verb to be, determiner, subject verb agreement, plural, singular, word order, word missing, unnecessary, conjunction, spelling, article, pronoun, possessive, noun, preposition, and gerund. Thus, the most common grammatical errors made by the seventh grade students of SMPN 5 Tarakan in writing descriptive text was Spelling with the percentage of 22.2%. Therefore, it can be concluded that the students faced problems in the process of writing a text such as having low knowledge about how to write a text using grammar correctly.
ThesisOpen AccessMetadata saja
2020•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
This research was conducted to (1) identify and describe the types of errors in descriptive paragraph made by the third semester students majoring in English education at the Borneo Tarakan University (UBT); (2) find out the frequency of types of the errors; (3) identify and describe the sources of the errors. The subjects of this study were 37 third semester students. Data were collected by asking the students to write descriptive paragraphs with the given topics. To get information about possible causes of the errors, 6 students were interviewed. The results showed that there were totally 401 errors found in students’ writings which were analyzed using Surface Strategy Taxonomy. They consisted of 98 omission errors, 58 addition errors, 226 formation errors, and 19 placement errors. Meanwhile, based on the comparative analysis taxonomy, 150 errors were caused by developmental factor, 21 errors by interlingual factor, 72 errors by ambiguous factor, and 3 errors by other factors. In conclusion, the students’ grammatical errors were due to their lack of grammar understanding and the influence of indonesian structure in the process of learning English.
