scholarly journals SPELLING ERROR ANALYSIS IN STUDENTS’ WRITING ENGLISH COMPOSITION

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-254
Author(s):  
Tira Nur Fitria

This research has objective to find out the kind of spelling errors written by the students and to determine the most dominant kind of spelling error written by the students of STIE AAS Surakarta in the academic year 2017/2018. This study used a descriptive qualitative approach. In this study, researchers revealed conclusions by collecting data. The object of the research were taken from 24 students of STIE AAS Surakarta, especially in the 2017/2018 academic year. In collecting data, the researcher used the documentation method. In analyzing errors, the steps were the identification of errors, classification of errors, description of errors, explaining errors, and tabulation of data. The data were tabulated to determine the frequency of errors found in the students’ writing composition. From the results of the study, it was found that there are some errors found in the results of student essays in the aspect of spelling as 50 data which consist of some errors such as in omission as 20 data or 40 %, in substitution as 14 data or 28 %, in insertion/addition as 10 data or 20 % and transposition as 6 data or 12 %. While the most dominant spelling error occurs in the aspect of omission as 20 data or 40 %.

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Indri Murniawaty ◽  
Wisudani Rahmaningtyas

Nowadays, competence mastery is highly required in order to compete in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Era. The purpose of this research is to figure out the students’ understanding and readiness dealing with the ASEAN Economic Community as well as the possible encountering problems when competing in the ASEAN Economic Community Era. This research uses a descriptive-qualitative approach conducted at Economics Faculty involving respondents of office administration education department students in the academic year of 2014/2015. The data are collected through questionnaires. The research results show that based on the aspect of communication competence, students are adequately ready with the percentage of 71.46%; based on the aspect of capability competence, they are categorized into high by 64.72%; and their knowledge competence has already reached 73.14%.Keywords: Labor markets in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Era, Students’ readiness, Working competence, 


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-85
Author(s):  
Evi Widayanti ◽  
Intan Aulia Kolbi

This research aims to describe in detail the errors of students in doing TIMSS question and describe the factors that cause students to experience errors in the TIMSS for reasoning category in 8th grade. The research using descriptive qualitative approach. The subjects were 8th-grade students of SMP Al-Karimah Surabaya Data collection techniques used include tests, interviews, and documentation. While the object in this research is the test results of students of class VIII SMP Al-Karimah Surabaya in working TIMSS in Mathematics 2011 for the category of reasoning. The results of the error analysis of students in TIMSS 2011 can be summarized as follows: mistakes made by students are grouped into 3 types: a) Concept errors, b) Errors procedures, and c) Calculation error. In doing the TIMSS 2011 on reasoning category, the type of error that most students experience is a mistake in understanding the concept.


JURNAL BASIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Woro Endah Sitoresmi ◽  
Velma Alicia

The objective of this study is to know the grammatical errors and to elaborate the sources of errors in odd midterm evaluation of eleventh grade for the academic year 2018/2019 in Vocational School, Muhammadiyah 2, Parung Serab, Kota Tangerang, Banten. It belongs to descriptive qualitative study which used document analysis to proceed the data. The findings showed that there are five error grammatical items which include tenses (present tense & past continuous tense), preposition, object pronoun, article and quantifier. In addition, there are three sources of errors in the study; error related to context of learning, intralingual error and interlingual error.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Yosi Marita

The purpose of this study was to find and analyze phrasal verb mistake based on surface strategy taxonomy in English essays written by students. This research was conducted using a qualitative approach with content analysis methods. The data source of this research is the first semester students of the Accounting Program Prof. Dr. Hazairin, SH University in academic year 2019/2020. The data consisted of 24 essays written by students. The results of this study indicate that there are 76 errors from four categories of errors including: obmission, misformation, addition, and misordering. Based on the research findings, it can be concluded that the highest error is found in misformation namely 30 times (86%). Causing a misperception between the writer and the reader. Therefore phrasal verb is indispensable in writing essays in English.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Jibrel H. Al-Saudi

This paper aims at investigating the spelling mistakes made by students of English language in The World Islamic Sciences and Education University (WISE) in Jordan. The researcher adopted Cook‘s classification of errors in this study. Students mistakes were categorized into four classifications: substitution, omission, insertion, and transposition. Fifty students were participated in the study by enrolling in the "Error Analysis" course in two semesters of the academic year 2016/2017. The data for the study were derived from three exams: the first, the second, and the final exams, given to the students during the two semesters. Then the data were analyzed after completing the course in the second semester of 2016-2017. The results of the study revealed that (38%) of the errors referred to omission and (28%) to insertion. However, the study showed that (22%) of errors referred to substitution, while only (15%) of them referred to transposition. This study showed that using vowels and pronunciation incorrectly is one of the major causes of the learners' errors. Further, the interference of the first language plays a significant role in this regard. The study concludes that more efforts and concern should be given to spelling errors made by students since the learning of spelling is an integral part of language learning. The researcher suggested some recommendations and pedagogical implications to be studied in the future.


Author(s):  
Hilman Haidir ◽  
Mulyadi Mulyadi

This research dealt with the identification of taboo language in Malay Panai Language of Labuhan Bilik Dialect. It is a language spoken by people living in Labuhan Bilik village, Panai Tengah district, Labuhan Batu, Rantau Prapat. The objective of this research was to describe the classification of the taboo words in Malay Panai Language of Labuhan Bilik Dialect (MPLLBD). The research applied was descriptive qualitative approach. The data were collected through observation, recording, and field notes. Then, the data were analyzed by identifying taboo words and categorizing them into the types of taboo words. Thus, each of the taboo words were presented in some examples of utterances in the language. Some words were considered taboo or not depending on the context in which they were used. The finding shows that taboo words in MPLLBD could be either implicit or explicit. In conclusion, there were some classifications of taboo words in the language which were related to the utterances of sex, death, excretion, body function, religion, animals, vague words, and disease. 


Author(s):  
Nomita Herlina Manurung And Willem Saragih

This study is purposed to describe the errors in grammatical features of report text. In addition, this study is also aimed to describe the possible causes of those errors. This study applied the descriptive qualitative approach in which the data was obtained from the report texts that were written by the eleventh grade students of accounting major in SMK N 1 Jorlang Hataran. The data were collected by using students’ report texts and questionnaires. The data then were analyzed by identifying the errors first, then describing the errors, and the last explaining the errors. The errors that occurred in students’ texts are errors in verbs, sentences, prepositions, articles, agreements, pronouns, modifiers, and tenses. The result of the study indicates that the students made 541 grammatical errors which were classified into: 37,15% errors in verbs, 18,85% errors in noun, 15,15% errors in sentence, 11,27% errors in preposition, 7,76% errors in article, 4,06% errors in pronoun, 3,51% errors in modifier, and 2,21% errors in tenses. The students’ errors were caused by 31,23% ignorance of grammatical rules, 28,09% incomplete application of rules, 15,89% false concept hypothesized, 13,86% interference of interlingual transfer, 9,05% wrong communication strategy, 1,84% over-generalization.


Author(s):  
Aswani Jelita Sianturi ◽  
Novalina Sembiring ◽  
Fiber Yun A Ginting

The Research was aimed to analyze the error on pronoun made by the eleventh grade students of SMA Katolik Cinta Kasih Tebing Tinggi in Academic Year of  2020/2021. The subject of this research consists of 30 students in XI-MIPA-1. The objectives of the study were (1) To find out the types of error made by students in using pronoun. (2) To find out what causes the students made such error in using pronoun. This research used qualitative approach with descriptive research. The errors were collected, identified, and classified based on the Surface Structure Taxonomy by Dulay. It was specified by four types of errors namely omission, addition, misordering, and misformation.The result showed (1) The most common errors made by the students were misformation (52,0%) or 88 errors. The second was error in addition with the frequency (35,5%) or 60 errors. The third error was omission (11,2%) or 19 errors. The lowest frequency of error was misordering (1,1%) or 2 errors. (2) The students made such errors in using pronouns because of their less motivation of learning, lack of knowledge about grammar and English language, and minimal use of media by the teacher during teaching learning process. The teacher should create an interesting teaching, so it that can increase the students’ interest in learning English.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maulidya Agustina ◽  
Dedy Hermawan ◽  
Ita Prihantika

Children's programs currently served are not in accordance with the classification of programs during children's broadcast hours and children's content that contains violence and contains more foreign animation than local children's shows. Therefore, Komisi Penyiaran Indonesia (Indonesian Broadcasting Commission), which was formed as an independent institution, has the authority to compile and supervise various broadcasting regulations that connect broadcasting institutions requiring a strategy in monitoring television programs in realizing child-friendly broadcasts. This study aims to describe and analyze the implementation of the strategy of Komisi Penyiaran Indonesia in monitoring television programs to achieve child-friendly broadcasts. This research was conducted with a descriptive qualitative approach. Data collection was carried out by interview, documentation and observation. The results of this study indicate that the implementation of the strategy of Komisi Penyiaran Indonsia is quite good but there are still shortcomings in the budget and target recipients, namely broadcasting institutions that are still committing violations. The implementation strategy is formulated into a program, in the form of Bimbingan Teknis Penyiaran Anak, Anugerah Penyiaran Ramah Anak and Pengaturan Isi Siaran Anak.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Puspita

The first language (L1) of learners has a significant effect in learning a foreign language. The influence of L1 could become errors, that is called interference. The main purposes of the study are to identify the most dominant type of language interference and the factors contribute to language interference in students’ English composition. The data were collected from 67 Second Grade Students of Plantation Management Study Program in State Polytechnic of Agriculture, Samarinda for the Academic Year 2019/2020, and taken through elicitation technique and documentation, and then analyzed the errors. The result of the study shows that the type of grammatical interference comprise morphological errors and syntactical errors were the most troublesome areas of language that students encountered when conducting composition in English. Since the main focus of the study is L1 interference, only errors related to Indonesian as L1 interference were addressed.


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