SPELLING ERRORS MADE BY ELEMENTARY STUDENTS
IN GROUP WORK
Novince Fatima Puspitaria
ABSTRACT
English has become international language, so it is important for people to learn English in order to be able to communicate with people around the world. People believe that learning English since early age will give benefits in language acquisition. For English as Foreign Language (EFL) especially young learners, spelling is one of the problems that might occur in acquiring a new language. Based on this fact, this study aimed to describe the kinds of spelling errors made by elementary school students in group work. There were one hundred six (106) elementary school students of SD Negeri Kumpulrejo 02 Salatiga involved in this study. The data for this descriptive study were collected through ten classroom observations and students’ written exercises. The analysis of the data showed that most spelling errors made by students could be classified into intralingual errors (L2-based). There were three kinds of intralingual errors that could be found in this study. They were sound-based errors, over-generalization of spelling rules, and anomalous misspelling that there is more than one error that happened in the same word.
