ERROR ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH ESSAYS MADE BY THE FIFTH SEMESTER OF ENGLISH STUDENTS AT FACULTY OF HUMANITIES BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY

Adil Fitra, Adil Fitra and Yusrita, Yanti and Nova, Rina (2016) ERROR ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH ESSAYS MADE BY THE FIFTH SEMESTER OF ENGLISH STUDENTS AT FACULTY OF HUMANITIES BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

This study attempts to investigate the errors that consist of 15 essays written by 15 students. The subjects of this study are from the fifth semester English students at Faculty of Humanities, Bung Hatta University. The object of this study is to identify the errors based on the types of errors in grammatical categories found in the essay writing tasks, as well as analyzing the categorizations of errors that causes to happen the interference of L1. Corder (1974), as a founder of error analysis states that error analysis is the part of investigation in learning process of language. There are some theories used to guide me in analyzing the data they are Dulay, Burt, & Krashen (1982), Cobuild (1990), Lyons (1995), Coulmas (1996), Yanti (1997), Azar (2002), Haryono (2002), Meyers (2005), Swan (2005), Quinn & Filak (2005), Werner & Nelson (2007), and Wingersky, Boerner, & HolguinBalogh (2009), Ellis (1997), and Gass (2013). The result of this study is that the errors are found in some classifications, such as (1) tenses, (2) spelling, (3) gerund, (4) word choice, (5) word order, (6) the verb be. The errors are identified by seeing the error categorizations, such as from the sentence level errors, the element errors, and the main errors or the source of errors. This study uses qualitative method as basic of the research. Keywords: error analysis, interference, grammatical categories, learning process.

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