STUDENTS’ TENSES ERRORS IN ACADEMIC WRITING: A Study at the Second Year Students of English Department, Faculty of Teacher Trainining and Education, University of Mataram, in the Academic Year of 2017/2018

Akhmad Fendro Edwin, Akhmad Fendro Edwin (2018) STUDENTS’ TENSES ERRORS IN ACADEMIC WRITING: A Study at the Second Year Students of English Department, Faculty of Teacher Trainining and Education, University of Mataram, in the Academic Year of 2017/2018. S1 thesis, Universitas Mataram.

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Abstract

This study was aimed to analyze (1) the types of tenses errors in academic writing and (2) the possible sources of those errors made by the student. This study was conducted in the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FTTE), University of Mataram. As the population, there were 71 students in the fourth semester of morning class divided into two classes. Class A consisted of 35 students and class B consisted of 36 students. As the sample, it was taken 30 of which (15 students each class) by using qualitative-quantitative method. Data for the study was collected by means of document studies and interpretation of the student‟s written products. All data analysis for the product was derived from Corder‟s (1967) methods on error analysis. This method has four steps: (1) collection of sample errors, (2) identification of errors, (3) classification of errors, and (4) description of errors. The types of errors were taken from three categories of errors in tenses, namely simple present tense, present perfect tense, and simple past tense. The result showed that there were 88 errors out of 203 incorrect sentences, found in three types of errors in students‟ academic writing, namely, subject-verb agreement (30 errors), verb tense (41 errors), and adverb of time (17 errors). Among those errors‟ types, the highest errors were found in Verb Tense with 47%, then followed by the errors in S-V Agreement with 34% and the errors in Adverb of time as the lowest percentage with 19%. Among those errors, 44 errors or 50% were found in simple present tense, 22 errors or 24% in present perfect tense and 22 errors or 26% in simple past tense. It was also found that there were 115 mistakes in the three types of tense discovered in the respondents‟ work, derived also from the three categories of mistakes. However, these types of mistakes were not discussed in details regarding to the focus of this research which only investigated the „erros‟ in academic writing encountered by the respective students. In addition, it was also found two possible sources of grammatical errors made by the students, namely interlingual and intralingual errors. In the errors, there were 67 causes or 76% caused by intralingual and 21 causes or 24% caused by interlingual.

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Keywords (Kata Kunci): Key Words: Error, Tenses, Academic Writing
Subjects: L Education > LB Theory and practice of education
Divisions: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan
Depositing User: M Jafar Jafar
Date Deposited: 14 Jul 2018 04:00
Last Modified: 14 Jul 2018 04:00
URI: http://eprints.unram.ac.id/id/eprint/5789

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