CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW
Before proceeding to apply appropriate methods in conducting this research, several previous researches done by other researchers in the same field are
presented as references. This chapter also provides several theories that are used.
2.1 Previous Researches
The first previous research is an article 2013 written by Muftah and Rafik- Galea. It analysed the errors on present simple tense committed by 77 adult
Arabic speakers who were learning English as a foreign language. The focus of the research was on the third person singular in simple present tense agreement
morpheme –s. This research obtained the data from two type’s instruments, GJT
a Grammatically Judgment Task and EWPT an Elicited Written Production Task. Those tasks were made to test the learners about the knowledge of present
simple tense morphology. The results showed that learners got difficulty in mastering the use of morpheme
–s in simple present tense due to their first language interferences. This research provided that the most frequent errors
produced are omission, phonological similarity, incorrect suffixation, and substitution.
The next is a research by Hidayah 2013. It discussed errors occured on essays produced by 53 Kolej Ugama Sultan Zainal Abidi
n’s TESL Teaching of English as a Second Language students. Each student or participant made two
essays that every essay had different tense and topic. The first topic is “an ideal partner that I should have in my life” that had to be written in simple present tense
and the second is “the most memorable moment in my life” that should be made
in past tense. The researcher tried to find the grammatical errors on the objects by classifying the types of errors using surface strategy taxonomy by Dulay et al
1982. The findings indicated that the misformation because of regularization is the most frequent error type made by the students.
The last research is an undergraduate thesis 2011 by Perwitasari. This research discussed the deviations on graffiti on 15 clothes sold in Ramayana. The
theory used on this research was surface strategy taxonomy by Dulay et al 1982 omission, error of addition, error of misordering, and error of misformation. The
results showed that the total numbers of errors written on clothes were 40 errors. The most dominant error type found was omission error.
The research that is going to be conducted here has similar topic with the several previous researches above in that it deals with error analysis. The first and
second research even discuss about verb errors committed by second language learners that are almost the same with this research. The second and third research
definitely provides many contributions in making this research from the theory applied, that is surface strategy taxonomy. However, this research directly
concerns with verb and verb phrase deviation in the fan fiction story produced by a foreign language learner entitled
“The Big Five: Knight Princess” published in wattpad. From the analysis, the total verb and verb phrase errors will be found.
Then, the suggested expressions from the erroneous form are shown.
2.2 Theoretical Review
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