Another problem faced by students in this term is some students did not know how to translate some appropriate words from
Indonesian language to English.
c. Word Form
In student‟s writing, the writer also found error in word form. In word form, students could not differentiate between noun, verb,
adverb, adjective, etc. it can be caused of overgeneralization. For example is
“I attend invited from my friend to her home town” It should be “I attended invitation from my friend to her home town.”
d. Usage
It was about using articles, using prepositions, and using singular- plural. They did such errors because they were still interfered by their
mother tongue-Indonesian language. In Indonesian language pattern, there is no rule on using articles, prepositions, and singular-plural.
They did not use the article such as a, an, and the correctly. One
of the example of student‟s error is “I see a mountain Krakatau.” The
students still confused to differentiate between using aan as indefinite article and the
as definite article. It should be “I saw the Krakatau
Mountain.” It is true that there is no pattern of using a, an, and the in Indonesian language. That is why most students made errors in using
this aspect. Sometimes, they thought that English is the same as Indonesian language.
Besides that, students also did such errors in preposition because of overgeneralization that is an error caused by extension of target
language rules to areas where they do not apply. Prepositions are usually quite short and significant looking, but they have very
important functions to link a noun to another word. Students derived a law, rule, or conclusion from the observation of particular instances.
Students might in his or her familiarity with definite vocabulary and it
use for all the context of writing. For example of this error is “
My
family take a rest on the house
.
” It should be “My family took a rest
in
the house.
e. Sentence pattern
Furthermore, the students made errors in sentence pattern. The students sometimes missed a word in their sentence such as a subject,
a verb, etc. For instance in this error is “I _ happy together with my friends.” The student did not put an auxiliary verb “be” before an
adjective.
It should be “I was happy together with my friends.” The
students did such errors because the students translated directly from Indonesia language into English. Therefore, they forgot to use the
correct pattern of a sentence that consist of subject, predicate or verb, and object. Therefore, their writing seems ambiguous.
f. Pronoun
