Abstract
This study was conducted to identify the kinds of errors in surface strategy taxonomy and to know the dominant type of errors made by the fifth semester students of English Department of one State University in Malang-Indonesia in producing their travel writing. The type of research of this study is document analysis since it analyses written materials, in this case travel writing texts. The analysis finds that the grammatical errors made by the students based on surface strategy taxonomy theory consist of four types. They are (1) omission, (2) addition, (3) misformation and (4) misordering. The most frequent errors occuring in misformation are in the use of tense form. Secondly, the errors are in omission of noun/verb inflection. The next error, there are many clauses that contain unnecessaryphrase added there.
Highlights
English may not be the most spoken language in the world, but it is the official language among countries around the world
FINDING The data of this study were taken from Creative Writing course of the fifth semester students of Study Program of English, Faculty of Cultural Studies at one State University in Malang-Indonesia
There were some errors found in the travel writing texts produced by the students
Summary
English may not be the most spoken language in the world, but it is the official language among countries around the world. Corder (1967, as cited in Nzama, 2010, p.11) states that errors are visible proof that learning is taking place He has emphasized that errors, if studied systematically, can provide significant insights into how a language is learned by a foreigner. It is interesting to observe the errors that appear in the travel writing texts made by the fifth semester students of English Study Program by using Surface Strategy Taxonomy theory by Dulay, Burt and Krashen (1982). This study is intended to find out the kinds of errors in surface strategy taxonomy as well as the dominant types of the errors made by the fifth semester students of English Study Program in producing their travel writing texts
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