Error Analysis of English Sentences Written by Indonesian College Students

This study aims to investigate (1) the pattern of the errors made by the Indonesian students (2) the dominant errors (3) the impact of the errors. Designed as qualitative research this research involved 100 students of the second year of the English Department IAIN Pekalongan. The data were collecte...

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Main Author: Ahmad Burhanuddin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman 2020-06-01
Series:Jurnal Ilmiah Lingua Idea
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Online Access:http://jos.unsoed.ac.id/index.php/jli/article/view/2154
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description This study aims to investigate (1) the pattern of the errors made by the Indonesian students (2) the dominant errors (3) the impact of the errors. Designed as qualitative research this research involved 100 students of the second year of the English Department IAIN Pekalongan. The data were collected through an open-ended questionnaire as the instrument of this study. The research findings reveal that (1) the patterns of the errors are spread into eleven types of errors, including verbs, articles, spelling, adjectives, preposition, sentence structure and ordering, word formation, word selection, noun, pronoun, and ambiguous communication; (2) 55.28% of the errors are in terms of subject-verb agreements, the use of articles (9.76 %), and misspelling (8.94%). These findings illustrate that most of the students did not know how to use verb and articles correctly and they need to pay attention to the spelling of the English words; (3) the errors found in the sentences give some ambiguities to the meaning of the sentences.
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spelling doaj.art-08af1f6bdba241758aa98a278247dbb22022-12-22T04:26:04ZengFaculty of Humanities, Universitas Jenderal SoedirmanJurnal Ilmiah Lingua Idea2086-18772580-10662020-06-011113043https://doi.org/10.20884/1.jli.2020.11.1.2154Error Analysis of English Sentences Written by Indonesian College StudentsAhmad Burhanuddin0IAIN Pekalongan, IndonesiaThis study aims to investigate (1) the pattern of the errors made by the Indonesian students (2) the dominant errors (3) the impact of the errors. Designed as qualitative research this research involved 100 students of the second year of the English Department IAIN Pekalongan. The data were collected through an open-ended questionnaire as the instrument of this study. The research findings reveal that (1) the patterns of the errors are spread into eleven types of errors, including verbs, articles, spelling, adjectives, preposition, sentence structure and ordering, word formation, word selection, noun, pronoun, and ambiguous communication; (2) 55.28% of the errors are in terms of subject-verb agreements, the use of articles (9.76 %), and misspelling (8.94%). These findings illustrate that most of the students did not know how to use verb and articles correctly and they need to pay attention to the spelling of the English words; (3) the errors found in the sentences give some ambiguities to the meaning of the sentences.http://jos.unsoed.ac.id/index.php/jli/article/view/2154error analysiswritten textsubject-verb agreementambiguity
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Error Analysis of English Sentences Written by Indonesian College Students
Jurnal Ilmiah Lingua Idea
error analysis
written text
subject-verb agreement
ambiguity
title Error Analysis of English Sentences Written by Indonesian College Students
title_full Error Analysis of English Sentences Written by Indonesian College Students
title_fullStr Error Analysis of English Sentences Written by Indonesian College Students
title_full_unstemmed Error Analysis of English Sentences Written by Indonesian College Students
title_short Error Analysis of English Sentences Written by Indonesian College Students
title_sort error analysis of english sentences written by indonesian college students
topic error analysis
written text
subject-verb agreement
ambiguity
url http://jos.unsoed.ac.id/index.php/jli/article/view/2154
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