Skripsi
Grammatical errors made by the elevent graders of SMAN 8 Malang in writing spoof text / Maylita Fitria Ramadhani
Abstrak
Key words Grammatical errors spoof text writing. This study is presented to find some students grammatical errors in writing a spoof text. The researcher collected the data at SMAN 8 Malang for the second year students. The subjects were 58 students of XI BHS and XI IPA 4. The design of this study is descriptive qualitative since this study is designed to describe errors the students made in spoof text writing products. The grammatical errors found were classified based on the surface strategy taxonomy proposed by Dulay et al. (1982) they are errors of omission errors of addition errors of misformation and errors of misordering. The result shows that there were 1107 errors found from 58 composition made by the eleventh graders. The first highest frequency of errors was omission errors (47.9%) that consisted of omission of verb inflection ed/-d omission of to be omission of article omission of preposition omission of definite article and other omission errors including omission of pronoun omission of ing possessive marker s omission of adjective clause and omission of auxiliary verb. The second highest frequency was errors of misformation (39.4%) including misformation of past tense verb misformation of to be misformation of verb misformation of modal auxiliary misformation of preposition and other misformation error including misformation of article and misformation of pronoun. The next highest frequency was errors of addition it made up (11.3%) that comprised of addition of to be addition of preposition addition of verb inflection ed-d addition of plural marker s/-es addition of ing and other addition including addition of adv -ly addition of possessive marker s and addition of auxiliary verb. The lowest frequency of errors found from the data was misordering errors that only amount to (1.4%) from all data. Errors misordering consisted of misordering of adverb misordering of preposition misordering of to be misordering of object pronoun misordering of verb misordering of subject and misordering of article. Based on the research findings some suggestion are given to the English teachers and the next researcher. The English teachers are expected to give more exposures to the English structure that often create difficulties for the students and paying more attention for the students problems. For the next researcher they should investigate errors in more specific part of English Structure.