2. The Role of Error Analysis
Henry Guntur Tarigan and Djago Tarigan, say that error analysis gives some benefits, they are:
a. To know the causes of the error and to understand the background of errors.
b. To correct errors made by the students.
c. To avoid similar errors made by students in the future.
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While, Pit S. Corder states that there are two function of error analysis concerning of the way of language process. The practical aspect of error analysis
has function in guiding the remedial action, as it stated that: Error analysis has two functions. The first is as a theoretical one and the
second as practical one. The theoretical aspect of error analysis is part of the methodology of investigating the language learning process. The
practical aspect of error analysis is the function guiding the remedial action.
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3. The Goal of Error Analysis
Stig Johanson says, “error analysis aims at systematically describing and explaining errors made by speakers of a foreign language.”
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He also says, “An analysis
of the learner’s error gives evidence of his competence in the foreign language. A
lso gain valuable information concerning learner’s difficulties at different stages.”
Jack C. Richard- John Platt- Heidi Platt, claim that error analysis may be carried out in order to:
a. Identify strategies, which learners use in language learning.
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Henry Guntur Tarigan and Djago Tarigan, Pengajaran Analisa Berbahasa, Bandung Angkasa, 1988, p.142
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Harvey M. Taylor, English and Japanese in Contrast, new York: Regent Company, inc,. 1979, p.11
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Stig Johnson, The Uses of Error Analysis and Contrastive Analysis 1, ELT Journal Vol. XXIX, No.3, April 1975, p.243
b. Try to identify the causes of learner’s errors.
c. Obtain information of common difficulties in language learning, as an aid to
teach or in the preparation of teaching materials.
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C. Writing
1. The Understanding of writing
There are several opinion about the understanding about writing. Writing is more like acting on the stage than it is like working a physics
problem. It is performance for audience that involves the total person-his thoughts, his feeling, and the conscious techniques he uses to influence.
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Writing is a way of thinking as well as means of communication, and one of the things it can be used to think about is someone and some writing must be
impersonal.
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Writing helps students learn, writing reinforce the grammatical structures, idioms, and vocabulary that we have been teaching our students. Writing involved
new language; the effort to express ideas and the constant use of the eye, hand, and brain is unique way to reinforce learning.
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Based on these definition above, writing kind of activity learning, this activity need background knowledge to support it skill, the skills; grammatical structure,
idioms, and vocabulary, and impersonal communication.
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JC. Richard, ..., p.243
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Irmscher, William f. Ways of Writing. United States of America: McGraw-Hill, 1969. Page 16
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Comley Nancy R, Scholes Robert. The practice of writing second edition. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 1985
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Anna Raimes. Techniques in Teaching Writing. Oxford University Press: New York. 1983
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