AN ANALYSIS OF WRITTEN ERRORS; A CASE OF SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH

Authors

  • Wardah Hayati English Department Tarbiyah Faculty UIN Antasari Banjarmasin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18592/let.v9i1.3078

Keywords:

Errors, Error analysis, Area of errors, Types of errors

Abstract

Errors are envitable happen during the process of learning a language. Students of English majoring in UIN A Antasari also frequently make errors in their witten respon during reading comprehension class. By analying written paper of these 28 students the researcher aims to know the areas as well as the types ot their errors. The analysis on 114 student written  errors shows that the students made errors in the areas of to be/auxiliary, subject-verb agreement, lexical, preposition, noun clause, possessive, verb, noun phrase construction, pluralization, and article. The most errors was in the area of tobe/ auxiliary with 34 errors while the least one is in article. Types of errors found in this study are misformation, omission, addition and misordering. The anlysis indicates that the errors are resulted from interlingual errors indicating interference from Bahasa.

References

Azar, B.S. (1989). Understanding and Using English Grammar, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Brown, H. D. (1994). Principles of Language Teaching and Learning. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc.

Cunningworth, A. (1987). Evaluation and Selecting EFL Teaching Materials. London: Heinemann Education Book.

Crystal, D. (1999). The Penguin Dictionary of language (2nd ed). Penguin

Ellis, R. (1994). The Study of Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: University Press.

James, C. (2013). Errors in Language Learning and Use. Exploring Error Analysis. London and NewYork: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

Hasyim, S. (2002). Error Analysis in the Teaching of English, Petra e-journal Volume 4, number 1, June 2002: 42–50. http://puslit.petra.ac.id/journals/letters

Latief, M. A. (2014). Research Methods om Language Learning: An Introduction. Malang: UM Press.

Norrish, J. (1987). Language Learning and Their Errors. London: Macmillan Publisher.

Richards, J.C. (1984). A Non-contrastive Approach to Error Analysis. English Language Teaching 25. London: Oxford University Press.

Selinker, L. (1972). Interlanguage. International Review of Applied Linguistics, 10

Downloads

Published

2019-06-30

How to Cite

Hayati, W. (2019). AN ANALYSIS OF WRITTEN ERRORS; A CASE OF SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH. LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal, 9(1), 77–87. https://doi.org/10.18592/let.v9i1.3078

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2019)

Section

Articles

License

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
 

Creative Commons License

LET (LINGUISTICS, LITERATURE, AND LANGUAGE TEACHING) http://jurnal.uin-antasari.ac.id/index.php/let/index licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.