Research Results Presentation RESEARCH RESULTS AND FINDINGS

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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND FINDINGS

This chapter provides two major sections of the research; there are research results presentation and discussion. The first section presents the research results gathered from the research and the second section deals with answering the research questions including discussing the data gathered.

A. Research Results Presentation

The purposes of this research are to find the errors made by seventh semester students of English Language Education Study Program in writing their Chapter I of Research Proposal in Thesis Writing Course, and then find the possible sources underlying the errors. In order to gain the data of students’ errors based on Dulay, Burt, and Krashen’s 1998 surface structure taxonomy theory, the researcher analyzed twenty five Research Proposals of Thesis Writing Course produced by the seventh semester students of English Language Education Study Program. This proposal consists of three chapters, and the researcher just focused on Chapter I. This chapter consists of around 6-10 pages. After analyzing the students’ writing products, the researcher found the errors made by students. The type of errors appear in this research are omission, addition, misinformation, and misordering. Blends error was not found in the research. However, the researcher found the other errors which cannot be PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 31 categorized in the surface structure taxonomy. The results of errors are presented in Table 4.1. Table 4.1 Types of Errors No Type of Error Frequency Examples 1 Omission 73 42.94 Should getting... The writer put certain target, that it is only for ... ...but some teacher still... ...new word that are... ...teacher no only teaches... 2 Addition 22 12.94 ...some problems deals... ..to follow Santiagos’s journey to... ...teaching students are are those ... ...that a lot of things surrounds us are ... 3 Misinformation 45 26.47 ...Is by show... Their listening ability was little bit poor, ... The study program whose aims to ... To help make the study... 4 Misordering 3 1.76 Do the exercise written... ...with the formulation problems,... 5 Other findings 27 15.88 ...what students needs... ..analyze the sentence latter on. Total 170 100 Based on Table 4.1, there are 170 errors found in the research. Omission error has the biggest frequency or percentage; it is 73 or 42.94 . The frequency of addition error is 22 or 12.94 . The frequency of misinformation error is 45 or 26.47 . Misordering error has 3 frequencies or 1.76 . Beside the errors mentioned before, the researcher also finds 27 frequencies or 15.88 of other findings. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 32

B. Findings