39 possible correction was [21.b]
The Simon Says game develops children’s concentration
. The other factors that cause the developmental error are the addition; some
participants added some un-important items in the verb phrase. This addition occurred because the participant wanted to apply the grammatical rule however
they applied it in the wrong utterance. For example, [22.a] And, games provides important link between home and school
instead of [22.b] And the games provides important link between home and school
. The participant applied the incorrect rule to the sentence. The participant thought that the subject was singular therefore
the participant added suffix –s to the utterance.
For addition, the factors that cause the developmental error are misformation and misordering. Almost, the participants did misformation because
the participants did not pay attention to the subject-verb agreement. It is equal to children who learn language. The example can be seen in the explanation of
misformation. The other factor is misordering. The misordering made by the participant was the wrong order of the auxiliary verb. For example, [23.a] Well,
so what pin on back is? Instead of [23.b] Well, what is pin on back?
f. Interlingual Error
Based on the data presentation, there were 6.20 interlingual errors. The interlingual errors are the sentences produced by the participants, which have
similarity in structure and semantically equivalent in the participant‟s native language. For example, [2.4.a] So it will make your children have freedom to
speak that they want to speak , the structure of this utterance is equal to Bahasa
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, “Jadi itu akan membuat siswa anda memiliki kebebasan untuk berbicara tentang apa yang mereka ingin katakan”. It seems that the participant
directly translated the Indonesian sentence to English. For the correction, the sentence should be [24.b] So it will make your children free to speak what they
want to speak .
g. Ambigous Error
Based on the data, there were 2.25 ambiguous errors. The ambiguous errors are errors that can be put in the developmental error or interlingual error.
For example [25.a] You must describe the thing just to only one opponents so the other opponent should silent
, this utterance was ambiguous error because it can be categorized as a developmental error or an interlingual error. The omission
of auxiliary verb is like the children‟s error i.e. developmental error. However, the absence of auxiliary verb also is like the participant‟s native language “Kamu
harus mendeskripsikan sesuatu hanya kepada seorang lawan jadi lawan yang lain
harus diam”. The participant‟s native language does not use an auxiliary to express the same condition although it was needed in English. For the correction,
it should be [25.b] You must describe the thing just to one opponent so the other opponents should be silent
.
h. Other Error
There are 6.20 belonged to other error. Other errors are the errors that are not included to the developmental errors and interlingual errors. There are
some errors included in other error. The first is the omission of a main verb. For instance, [25.a] And second, teacher should a list on their mouth or their nose,
