26 qualitative research, the result of the research would represent the errors made by
those twenty five participants.
D. Instruments and Data Gathering Technique
The research used document as the instrument. The document used here was the students’ Research Proposal produced in KPE 475 Thesis Writing Course.
The researcher started obtaining the documents on March 2011. The researcher asked permission to twenty five students of the seventh semester of English
Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University academic year 20072008, to use their Research Proposals produced in Thesis Writing Course as
the data of the research. After obtaining the documents, the researcher read and made a list of errors found in the documents.
E. Data Analysis Technique
By analyzing the students’ writing products in Chapter I of Research Proposal produced by students in Thesis Writing Course, the researcher found the
data results and findings. The results and findings showed the students’ errors in writing their Chapter I of Research Proposal. The researcher checked and
analyzed students’ writing products in Chapter I of Research Proposal by circling and underlying the errors they made. The researcher made a list of errors. After
that, the researcher would code the data based on the type of the errors. Based on Dulay, Burt, Krashen 1998 as cited in Ellis Barkhuizen 2005, there are
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27 two types in describing errors. They are 1 a linguistic taxonomy and 2 a
surface taxonomy. Based on that, the researcher would code the amount of errors in the table
based on the types of errors.
Table 1. Types of Errors
No Type of Error
Frequency Percentage
Examples 1 Omission
2 Addition 3 Misinformation
4 Misordering 5 Blends
The researcher
counted the errors from students’ writing, and then wrote
down in the Table 1. After that, the researcher interpreted and discussed the results by describing the data in the Table 1, and the error analysis results in the
form of descriptive data. From the errors analysis results, the researcher classified the error type that the seventh semester students still made in writing their Chapter
I of Research Proposal in Thesis Writing Course. The results were also used to
analyze the possible sources underlying the students’ errors.
F. Research Procedure
