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3.1 Research Finding
The research finding consists of five steps. They include the type of
morphological errors, the type of syntactical errors, the type of discourse errors, the
frequency of each error, and the sources of error.
a. Type of Morphological Error
Morphology is a study about word structure. In this research the researcher found 67 errors. The kinds of morphological error were divided into three as follows;
misformation of word in similar meaning, misordering of spelling and blend of
Indonesian word. The cur study describes the type of error as follows: 1
Misformation of Word in Similar Meaning
Misformation is the use of the wrong form of a structure. Actually the words has a similar in spelling andor pronunciations in English and Indonesian language
but different in meanings. Th curent study found 22 errors. For example, “we entry into the museum”.
This sentence contains errors because used word “entry”. The correct word was” entered
”. This word had similar meaning with Indonesia language, but it is not appropriate when used in the English language.
2 Misordering of Spelling
Spelling is a linguistic process of phonemic orthography correct writing with the necessary letters and diacritics presented in a comprehensible order.
The curt study found 43 errors. For example, in this sentence “we can saw sunrice
” This sentence was error of word spelling because of the word “sunrice”. The student used a letter to represent a sound which was identical to a form a word in
English, so the students applied Indonesian language into the English language. On the other hand, the word sunrice and sunrise had a similar sound, but in English the
word sunrice was meaningless and incorrect. The correct word was “sunrise”.
3 Blend of Indonesian Word
The students had an Indonesian word to switch cultural words which are untranslatable.
The current study found 2 errors. For example “Vespa beuy of Java atau Java Scoteriest”. The incorrect word was “atau” usually used to describe the differences
8 between the one with others” It is an error because the student write the word “atau”
which was clearly Indonesian word. The correct word was “or”.
b. Type of Syntactical Error
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