Smokeing costs a lot of money. Committed by students 6, 15, 18,
20
He is interested in makeing friends. Committed by students 18,
19, 21, 25
Let’s postpone leaveing until tomorrow. Committed by students
13, 15, 18, 22
What makes Jessy scared is closeing all windows alone in the
night. Committed by students 3, 13, 20, 25 Suggested correction
Smoking costs a lot of money. He is interested in making friends.
Let’s postpone leaving until tomorrow. What makes Jessy scared is closing all windows alone in the night.
From the example above, the students failed to omit certain item which should not exist in their sentence. Some students failed to delete
“e” letter after adding –ing form in the sentence.
c. Misformation
Misformation is the dominant type of errors which found in this research. There are 424 occurrence or 71.74 of whole errors occurring
in students answer sheets. Misformation error occurred when the students chose the wrong form of structure of morpheme and word,
such as the following examples:
Sells a drug is illegal. Committed by students 5, 6, 7, 30 She gets full credit for rehabilitates the neighborhood. Committed
by students 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
I wouldn’t miss to see that lovely film for the world. Committed
by students 2, 3, 4, 7
His favourite hobby is to play online games. Committed by
students 12, 26
Suggested correction
Selling a drug is illegal. She gets full credit for rehabilitating the neighborhood.
I wouldn’t miss seeing that lovely film for the world. His favourite hobby is playing online games.
The example above showed that students failed to choose the correct form or word. Some students committed misformation errors
because they used “to” instead of “-ing”. Besides that, they used “ses” instead of”-ing” in the end of the word.
1. Explanation of Errors
In this part, the writer would like to explain the error by finding out the cause or the sources of error. Here are the main sources of errors are
considered in this analysis; they are over-generalization, ignorance of rule restrictions, and incomplete application of rules.
a. Over-generalization
Over-generalization generally involves the creation of one deviant structure in place of two regular structures. It may be the result of the
learner reducing hisher linguistic burden. Over-generalization is one of the common causes of language error
in this research. For example:
Sue is in charge of organizeing the meeting. Committed by
students: 25, 28
You might get in trouble for fakeing an illness to avoid work.
Committed by students 13, 15, 20, 25 The example above showed that the students created errors by
applying an d adding the “-ing” form without deleting the “e” letter in
the end of the word. It should be “organizing” and “faking”.
