Causes of Errors, Frequency and Percentage
go Jogja ” the correct sentence is “I went to Jogja”. The source of this
error comes from interlingual transfer. The students did not use the rule of their target language well.
f. Word choice
There are 25 errors or 7.4 from this error. These errors happened because the students have a lack of vocabulary and its use. The students
were confused in choosing the appropriate word or part of speech. In this case, the example is
“I saw high building”; it should be “I saw tall building
”. g.
Add a word The total error of this error is the same with word choice, there are
25 errors or 7.4. Students eliminated the important word that was needed in their sentence. For example in the sentence,
”I helped my parents clean the house
” the right sentence is “I helped my parentsto clean the house
”. These errors occurred because the students had not clearly understood of the structure of the sentence or the function of omit
word. So the source of this error is from the interlingual transfer. h.
Singular-plural The total error of this error is 23 or 6.8. Most of students did not
put the suffix –s or –es to indicate that they wanted to use the plural noun
in their sentence. For example of error is, “it had 5 bed room”; the correct
sentence is, “it had 5 bedrooms”. This error is influenced by their
Indonesian language because in Indonesian language we don„t put the
suffix –s in the end of pluralnoun.
i. Word order
The next error that students made is word order with the total errors 10 errors or 3. The error happened as the result of interlingual transfer.
The students got the influence of the structure or order of their native language which is Indonesian language.
The example of this error is “we waited for Ashar pray
”; the correct sentence is “we waited for pray Ashar
”.
j. Meaning not clear
The total error of this error is 8 or 2.3. In this error the writer does not know what the students wanted to write, sometimes the writer just
assumes what the students wanted to write in their writing based on the writer‟s opinion. This error happened because of the intralingual transfer.
It occurred because the student had a lack of knowledge in vocabulary and grammar area of the target language. The example of this error is
“We left home at took Jum‟at prayer”, maybe the student means in this sentence is “We left home when people pray Jum‟at”.
k. Punctuation
The total error in punctuation is 7 errors or 2. The example of this error is “On my last holiday I went to CBD”; it should be “On my last
holiday, I went to CBD”. In this sentence the student did not put the
comma after the word of holiday. This error maybe because the students carelessness, so they do not pay attention to punctuation.
l. The last types or errors in this research are incomplete sentence, article,
and run-on sentence. The students did not make a mistake in these errors.