Student 2: “Miss Nurma is a head library at my school.” The correct one is “Miss Nurma is
a librari an at my school”. Total of students‟ errors in word form is 34, and then
the grand total of errors occured is 588. The data can be percentage by the formula
as follow:
P = × 100 P = × 100 = 5.8
i. Word Order
The term word order is often used to refer to the order of the elements in the clause, element which are, often each realizes by phrases or clauses rather than
just one word: subject, verb, object, predicate and adverbials. Word order is sometimes the result from immediate communication strategy when the learner
tried to express a meaning, which their competence contained no appropriate items or rules at all. Indonesian word order and English word order is different.
For instance of this error is: Student 14:
“books history.” It should be “history books”. This error happens because of mother tongue interference or interlingual transfer. Total of students‟ errors in
word order is 33, and then the grand total of errors occured is 588. The data can
be percentage by the formula as follow:
P = × 100
P = × 100 = 5.6
j. Singular-Plural
Number is the form of word to show whether it is singular or plural. Singular number is when a noun denotes one object. Plural number is a noun is a
noun denotes more than one object. Singular can be identified by putting “a” or “an” before noun. Generally, plural nouns can be added by “s” or “es” after noun.
In irregular noun form, plural has varoius types e.g. knife-knives, man-men, mouse-mice etc.
Most of students made errors in singular and plural because of their lack of knowledge and the influence of their native language or mother tongue
interference. We know that the form of Indonesia singular and plural is different from English form. Mostly, Indonesia plural form does not change form its
singular form. For instance of this error is:
Student 2: “Nine classroom.” It should be “nine classrooms”. The student did not put –s
after noun “classroom”. Total of students‟ errors in singular-plural is 34, and then
the grand total of errors occured is 588. The data can be percentage by the formula as follow:
P = × 100 P = × 100 = 5.4
k.
Article
Article is determiner with its basic role is to mark noun phrases as either definite or indefinite. The definite and indefinite article is customary to recognize
a zero article. Students did not use the article such as a, an, and the correctly. One of the exa
mple of students‟ error is:
Student 3: “I am student of MTs N SA Balaraja.” She did not put an indefinite article of a
in the sentence. It should be “I am a student of MTs N SA Balaraja” The students
still confused to using aan as indefinite article and the as definite article. 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.
Total of stud ents‟ errors in word order is 23, and then the grand total of
errors occured is 588. The data can be percentage by the formula as follow: P = × 100
P = × 100 = 3.9
l. Incomplete sentence
Incomplete sentences can be problem for young writers. An incomplete sentence is any word or group of words that creates the subject of a sentence, but
fails to create a predicate. For instance of this error is:
