ERRORS ANALYSIS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
STUDENTS’ WRITING
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Yutta Natasya Dyarenggasti
112007026
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
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ERRORS ANALYSIS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
STUDENTS’ WRITING
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Yutta Natasya Dyarenggasti
112007026
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
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ERRORS ANALYSIS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
STUDENTS’
WRITING
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Yutta Natasya Dyarenggasti
112007026
Approved by:
Hendro Setiawan Husada, M. A Prof. DR. Gusti Astika, M. A
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Error Analysis on Information and
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ERRORS ANALYSIS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
STUDENTS’ WRITING
Yutta Natasya Dyarenggasti
Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the types of grammatical errors found in the Faculty
of Information and Technology students‟ writing. The data were collected from 20 essays
entitled “My Experience”. In analyzing the data, I used steps suggested by Corder (1974) as cited in Ellis and Barkhuizen (2005). First, a native speaker teacher helped identify the grammatical errors in the participants‟ work. Second, the errors would be classified based on Linguistic Taxonomy proposed by Politzer and Ramirez (1973) as cited in Dulay, Burt and Krashen (1982). Third, based on the identification of errors, each category of errors was counted to find each propotion. Finally, each category of errors was explained and discussed. The result of the study show that English tenses (190 errors or 30.60%) were found to be the most common grammatical errors followed by errors in articles (155 errors or 24.96%), prepositions (104 errors or 16.75%), singular/plurals (60 errors or 9.66%), subject-verb agreements (57 errors or 9.18%), possessives (32 errors or 5.15%), and pronoun (23 errors or 3.70%). This research concluded by discussing the pedagogical implication.
