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a. In order to make the development work well, a material design that is good should follow the teaching of the subject.
b. Pair work is an activity of learning that is only done by two students are face to face to give information through reading by taking turn.
In these sentences, the student seemed trying to show off by using quite long phrases just to convey an idea. They seemed awkward since they did not
straightforwardly express the meaning. The researcher tried to revise them by not showing off and avoiding “indirectness”. The plausible revision would be:
a. To accomplish the process, a well-designed material should follow the objective of the subject.
b. Pair work is a learning activity where two students take turns reading and sharing information face to face.
3. Context Ignorance
Being formal in academic writing is principal since academic writing is mostly addressed to academic audience. However, derived from the research
findings in formality category, it seemed that the students rarely considered context as an important part of writing. They possibly felt that they could still
convey their message to the readers without concern for the context. For example, … the students should practice speaking over and over again.
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Ignorance of context occurs because the students do not have knowledge of the rules of a certain area in English writing, particularly academic writing.
This error occurs due to the ignorance of rule restrictions that is considered as intralingua interference stated by Brown 1983: 177.
4. Uncertainty
The students were uncertain with their ideas. This was clearly shown from the way they used general words in expressing ideas. They appeared to fail to
deliver their opinion since they did not quite understand the overall content of
their articles. For example, It is expected that the study can give beneficial thing to
the English teachers. Thing in this sentence might indicate that the student was uncertain about what he wanted to say. As stated previous by Blicq 1986: 348,
specific words will tell the reader that we are definite and sure of ourselves. Therefore, it might be better if thing was replaced by input and elaborated more
by providing further explanation.
5. Target-Language Rules
The following examples were found in the students’ composition: a. However, often the implementation meets constraint like a lack of interest,
financial, and support. b. Hopefully, this paper is useful to both educators and learners who apply
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The students might have learned parallelism and preposition. However, these errors were because of their ignorance of rule restriction in second language
as also stated by Johnson 2001: 67.
6. Carelessness
