Student 14
1 1
3 4
1 1
2 1
14
Student 15
2 4
1 1
2 6
16
Student 16
1 1
2 1
1 1
1 1
9
Student 17
1 9
1 11
Student 18
2 3
2 1
8
Student 19
1 6
4 1
1 6
19
Student 20
1 11
3 3
1 1
10 2
1 2
35
Student 21
4 1
5 1
4 1
1 1
8 26
Student 22
2 5
5 4
2 3
5 3
4 1
1 1
36
Student 23
2 1
1 1
1 14
20
Student 24
1 2
2 5
16 1
7 34
Student 25
1 7
1 3
1 8
3 6
1 31
Student 26
1 1
2 2
6
Student 27
2 3
2 3
1 1
1 11
2 26
Student 28
1 1
1 1
1 7
12
Student 29
2 2
5 1
3 7
3 1
24
Student 30
3 5
3 7
3 2
4 2
12 3
2 1
47
Total
21 34
110 105
81 38
45 3
71 45
200 22
13 49
837
Percentage of Error
2.51 4.06
13.14 12.54
9.68 4.54
5.38 0.36
8.48 5.38
23.90 2.63
1.55 5.85
100
The precentages of the recapitulation of students’ errors are converted into a pie chart. The pie chart covers the highset until the lowest rank as follows.
Figure 4.1 The Students’ Types of Errors
The pie chart above based on the students’ writing data explains the varieties of errors that students made. The writer would like to elaborate the result
of the pie chart above started from the highest error number until the lowest rank. 1
Capitalization Most of students made error in capitalization which the error is
200 or 23.90. An example
sentence of it is “First, we Look The Elephants
.” It should be “First, we look the elephants.” See
appendix table 4.9, p.8
. The other example of it is “On monday I
24
13 13
10 8
6 5
5 5
4 3
2 2
The Types of Errors
Capitalization Word Choice
Verb Tense Add a Word
Spelling Run-On Sentence
Word Order Punctuation
Omit a Word Word Form
Article Singular-Plural
Meaning not Clear Incomplete Sentence
went to malioboro with my uncle.” it should be “On Monday I went
to Malioboro
with my uncle.” See appendix table 4.19, p.35. The writer assumes that the error caused by communication strategy.
Writing is different from speaking. When speaking the students don’t
pay attention to the capital letter and in writing the students have to pay attention in capital letter. Therefore, capitalization error occurred
because the students didn’t capitalize the letter properly.
2 Word Choice
The students made 110 word choice errors or 13.14. An
example sentence of it is “next me exit from animal’s garden….” It should be “next to me was the exit of zoo….” See appendix table
4.3, p.3
. Other example of error in word choice is “On sunday 12
th
mei.” It should be “On Sunday 12
nd
Mei.” See appendix table 4.3, p.1. The writer thinks that the errors are caused by interlingual
transfer . It may occur when the students didn’t know the appropriate
word to compose in the paragraph because they translated the Indonesian language into English directly and it becomes error.
Intralingual transfer also can be the cause of this error. The students generalize one rule because they have not mastered yet the knowledge.
3 Verb Tense
Verb tense has 105 errors or 12.54. The example is “The
driver could not controls h
is car because he drove fast.” The correct
sentence is “The driver could not control his car because he drove fast.” See appendix table 4.17, p.32. The other example is “We were
go a half past six.
” The correct sentence is “We went at half past six.”
See appendix table 4.9, p.17. The writer assumes that the error caused by interlingual transfer because Indonesian language has
different grammatical rules from English. Verb doesn’t have to change
from the present to past or future and in English verb needs to change from the present to past or future to express the tense. Especially for
