Cover Page Error Analysis in Subject-Verb Agreement Found in Students’ Writing at Language Training Center of Universitas Muhammadiyah
Yogyakarta
A Skripsi
Submitted to Language Education Faculty as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana P endidikan
Herlin Aniko 20130810005
English Education Department Language Education Faculty Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
Approval Sheet
Error Analysis in Subject-Verb Agreement Found in Students’ Writing at Language Training Center of Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
Language Education Faculty
English Education Department
Herlin Aniko
20130810005
Candidate for degree of Sarjana Pendidikan
This undergraduate thesis has been accepted and approved as confirming to the required standard
Yogyakarta, August 2017
Supervisor
Statement of Autenticity I am a student with the following identity:
Name : Herlin Aniko
NIM : 20130810005
Department : English Education Department Faculty : Language Education Faculty
University : Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
I honestly declare that this undergraduate thesis, entitled Error Analysis in
Subject-Verb Agreement Found in Students’ Writing at Language Training Center
of Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta which I have written does not contain
the work of other people, except those cited in all the quotations and references are quoted in accordance with ethical standards of scientific paper.
Yogyakarta, August 2017
Acknowledgement
Alhamdulillahirobbila’lamin. Praise be to Allah SWT the lord of the word
and the sequel of for those who keep their duty unto him. Salawat and Salam always be given to Prophet Muhammad SAW who brings Islam and guide Muslim from darkness to the lightness. My highest gratitude and honor goes to Allah SWT who has been giving me mercy, health, love and strength in finishing this skripsi.
Greatest thankful feeling goes to my family who always love and support me emotionally and financially in every joy and sorrow. Thank you Bapak
Sarbani, Mama Risa Umami, Bule’ Masitah and my beloved sister Helda Urbhani Rosa for everything you have done. This skripsi was definitely part of forbearance in facing the world. I could never repay you, but I could try my best for make you happy and proud with me. Family is where life start and love never ends.
Special gratitude belongs to my beloved supervisor, Miss Noor Qomaria Agustina, S.Pd, M.Hum. for guiding and helping me to finish this skripsi. Also, I thank to my first examiner Miss Evi Puspitasari, S.Pd, M.Hum. and my second examiner Miss Ika Wahyuni Lestari, S. Pd, M.Hum. for giving many suggestion and valuable comment to improve this skripsi. I hope all of you will always shine bright like a diamond and become inspiration for everyone arounds.
not really work with people unless I really like them and have a connection. Endless love goes to my sister in Unires Usroh Baroroh Barid (Venna, Santi, Fanny, Yul, Tiwi, Mia, Uli, Rizka, Rita, Susan, Shofie, Penny, Ledy, Kak Al, and Mbak Ana), our sisterhood is everlasting, distance would not separate us. A bunch of freak Family Kingdom (Habliy Mawaddah, S.Ikom., Nurfitriani, S.E., Raka Wijayanto, S.E.) who like playing truth or truth, talking heart to heart, and sharing many secret things, I thank for putting up with my idiosyncrasies. Geng
Bimbingan (Ozi, Teh Aqih, Upe, Agus, Aul) thank you for our togetherness
during this final assestment. Class A EED UMY 2013 and my beloved (Adhit , Agis, Ai, Aina, Ami, Andhika, Bagus, Eri, Fitri, Kak Sulaiman, Mila, Nanda, Nayah, Novan, Warih, Wira, and Wijanarko), thank you for all support, love, motivation and friendship. The days would have passed far more slowly without you guys. Also many more whom I cannot mention one by one.
Abstract
Subject- verb agreement is very basic knowledge in making an English sentence. To produce a complete sentence, the students at least have to put one subject and one verb, and here is the importance of subject-verb agreement. This research aims at knowing the error types and calculating the production of subject-verb agreement error in students’ writing. However, the researcher limits the subject-verb agreement sentences on seven subjects, namely I, we, you, they, she, he, and it and later called as keywords. The data were collected from 99 essays from International Relations essay writing class batch 2016 at Language Training Center of Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta. In this research, the researcher used error analysis as design of this research, based on Corder (1967) in Agustina (2016) that was determining the data, identifying the errors, classifying the errors, explaining the error and quantifying the error. The researcher used document analysis as data collections method and Concordance program as help for shorting the data. The results of this research showed that there were 363 subject-verb error sentences from 2,851 sentences which contained seven keywords. There were four
types of errors on International Relation essay writing class batch 2016 when used
subject-verb agreementin their writing. They were addition, misformation,
misordering and omission (Ellis, 2003). However, not all of seven keywords had all
of four error types. Keywords “I”, “We”, “You”,“They”, “She”, and“It” had all of errors type, but for keywords “He” only had three error types, which were
misformation, misordering, and omission. From those errors, the types of error that
occurred mostly was misformation (43.80 %), the second was omissions (38.90%),
total subject-verb agreement error percentage was14.19 % meaning that the error level was low.
Table of Contents
Cover Page ... i
Approval Sheet ... ii
Statement of Autenticity ... iii
Acknowledgement ... iv
Abstract ... vi
List of Tables ... x
List of Figure ... xi
List of Appendices ... xii
List of Abbreviations ... xiii
Chapter One ... 1
Introduction ... 1
Background ... 1
Statement of the Problem ... 3
Limitation of the Problem ... 4
Research Questions ... 4
Objectives of the Research ... 5
Significance of the Research ... 5
Chapter Two ... 7
Literature Review... 7
Writing ... 7
Error ... 12
The Agreement between Subject and Verb ... 16
Reviews of Related Study ... 19
Conceptual Framework ... 21
Chapter Three ... 24
Methodology ... 24
Research Design ... 24
Setting and Participant of the Research ... 25
Research Instrument ... 27
Data Collection Method ... 28
Data Analysis Technique ... 29
Chapter Four ... 33
Finding and Discussion ... 33
The Errors of Subject-Verb Agreement found in Essay Writing at LTC of UMY ... 33
Error classifications. ... 33
Errors of subject-verb percentage. ... 54
Chapter Five ... 58
Conclusion and Recommendation ... 58
Conclusion ... 58
Recommendations ... 60
List of Tables
Table 1. Types of Writing 9
Table 2. Types of Error 14
Table 3. The Explanation Between Subject and Verb 16
Table 4. The Rules of Subject Verb Agreement 18
Table 5. Error Type Misformation 34
Table 6. Error Type Omission 42
Table 7. Error Type Addition 50
Table 8. Error Type Misordering 52
Table 9. The General Number of Subject Verb Agreement 55 Table 10. Subject Verb Agreement Error Types Number and the
List of Figure
List of Appendices
Appendix A. The copy of surat ijin penelitian 67
Appendix B. The title of students’ essays 68
Appendix C. Essay documents (Students writing) 73
List of Abbreviations
A Article
Adj Adjective
Adv Adverb
Aux Auxiliary verb
Conj Conjunction
EW Essay Writing
IR International Relation
LTC Language Training Center
N Noun
Np Noun phrase
Poss Adj Possesive Adjective
Poss Pro Possesive Pronoun
S S-V
Subject Subject- Verb
UMY Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
