of Students’ December, 31 2018

Writing And Its

Implication to
TEFL

TEFL FINAL ASSIGNMENT

 OUTLINE

Introduction

Methodology

Result
Discussion
Implication to TEFL
 Previous Study 1
Error Analysis on The Use of The SimpleTense and The Simple Past Tense
in Writing Essays Among TESOL College Students in 2013 by Ahmad Taufik
Hidayah bin Abdullah.

• essay writing test

• 43 on college students taking a diploma course
• TESOL
• Finding:
→ almost 96 % of the simple present tense
→ 81 % of the simple past tense
 Previous Study 2

Analysing the students errors in using simple present (A case study at Junior High School
in Makassar) in 2016 by Muh. Arief Muhsin

• descriptive text
• 27 students from eight grade in Makasar Junior High School
• Identify grammatical error
• Finding:
→16.79% errors of omission
→ 5.11% errors in addition
→ 75.18% errors in missed formation
→ 2.92% errors in improper ordering
 Previous Study 3

Error analysis of students’ writing descriptive text based on surface strategy taxonomy
also by Nur Choironi, Muhammad Sukirlan, and Ujang Suparman.

• descriptive test
• 32 students of eleven science class
• Finding:
→ omission of verb consists of 128 or 16.10%
→ addition of preposition consists of 56 or 7.04%
→ misformation of verb consists of 584 errors or 73.46%
→ misordering of phrase consists of 27 or 3.40%
 Previous Study 4
An Analysis of Errors in Written English Sentences: A Case Study of Thai EFL Students
conducted by Kanyakorn Sermsook, Jiraporn Liamnimitr, and Rattaneekorn Pochakorn
examines the language errors in a writing of English major students in a Thai university
and to explore the sources of the errors.

• descriptive test
• 32 students of eleven science class
• Finding:
→ the most frequently commits errors are punctuation, articles, subject-verb agreement,

→ spelling, capitalization, and fragment, respectively.

 Previous Study 5

Investigate the writing errors by by Mohammed Nuruzzaman, A B M Shafiqul

Islam, and Israt Jahan Shuchi

Finding
In grammatical category, ‘verb tense’ and ‘subject-verb agreement’ are the two areas
where students committed the highest number of errors. Likewise, ‘punctuation’ and
‘capitalization’ are the two error-prone areas in mechanics whereas in lexical category,
students make most errors in ‘preposition’ and ‘article’.
 METHODOLOGY

Dulay's Surface Strategy Taxonomy

• Omission
• Additions
• Double Markings
• Regularization
• Misformation
 METHODOLOGY

Research Design

 Descriptive research
 Phenomena occur naturally
 Specifying, delineating, or describing
 METHODOLOGY

Samples and Sampling Procedures

Samples Sampling Procedures

24 FEMALE STUDENTS
RANDOMLY
2 GRADE
nd

NURUL ISLAM JUNIOR HIGH TWO CLASSES

SCHOOL
 METHODOLOGY

Instrumentation

• Writing on descriptive text bout students'

parents.
 METHODOLOGY

Data Collecting Procedures

 Descriptive text writing

 Talking about parents
 45 minutes
 Sumission
 METHODOLOGY

Data Analysis Procedures

1) choosing the language corpus
2) identifying errors in the corpus
The Error 3) classifying errors
Analysis Method 4) explaining errors
(Corder, 1974) 5) evaluating errors
 RESULT 1-1
Table 1. The General Overview of the Errors Committed by Students

Percentage of Errors Committed by Students

50.00%
45.00% 43.40%

40.00%
35.00% 34.00%

30.00%
25.00%
20.00%
15.00% 12.90%
9.70%
10.00%
5.00%
0.00%
Omission Addition Misformation Misordering
 RESULT 1-2
Table 2. The Result of Error Analysis of Students’ Writing

No Types of Errors Frequency Total Percentage Total Percentage

1. Omission 134 134 34 % 34%
2. Addition
Dual Marker 4 1%
51 12.9 %
Regularization 2 0.5%
Simple Addition 45 11.4 %
3. Misformation
Regularization 148 37.6%
171 43.4%
Archi-Form 0 0%
Alternating-Form 23 5.8%
4. Misordering 38 38 9.7% 9.7%
 DISCUSSION 1-1
OMISSION OF PREPOSITIONS OMISSION OF LINKING VERBS/TO BE

• Do you think someone? • I very shocked…

• When I was holiday • Who my idol in this world?
• She was born in Karanganyar 23
• My name Nisrina Husna
November 1978.
Tsabitha

OMISSION OF SUBJECTS OMISSION OF ARTICLES

• …Her name is Supriyanti. Was born in • My mother like angel without
Magelang
wing…
• She is like a candle. Give me a sweet
• He is wise father
life.
• …with hardwork for us, waiting in the
house.
 DISCUSSION 1-2
Addition
DOUBLE MARKER REGULARIZATION

• He is do his best
• She has five childs
• I am have one sister

SIMPLE ADDITION

• My father is work a mechanic

• That is make my father always fight for me
 DISCUSSION 1-3
Misformation

REGULARIZATION ALTERNATING FORM

• After she pray subuh, my mother
cook for breakfast …
• My mother come back from her
job at 16.00
• She always teach me all lesson
• I like them advice because them
advice can give me…
• He always inspired me when me
down
 DISCUSSION 1-4
Misordering

Misordering type of error has the lowest percentage of occurrence among all types
of errors. Misordering is marked by the incorrect placement of a morpheme in a
sentence. The following is the example of the misordering found in the students’
writing.
She always smile and always there is for me
 IMPLICATION TO TEFL

The type of errors occurred in students of 10 grader of Nurul

Islam high school is

Errors made by the students are the valuable indicators of their

progress in learning English

It can be a basis of evaluation for teachers in their teaching

learning process whether their method or technique, media and
material provided in the classroom are already effective.
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