Abstract
This research aimed at identifying the subject-verb agreement errors in students’ writing. This research applied a descriptive research. The data were collected through test and non-test instruments. Test instruments were conducted through writing test and non-test instruments were through questionnaire and interview. The data obtained from both test and non-test instruments were conducted by employing descriptive analysis. This research analyzed students’ narrative writing based on Surface Strategy Taxonomy proposed by Dulay, Burt and Krashen (1982). This result revealed the types of error in subject-verb agreement in the students’ narrative writing covering omission, addition and misinformation. In conclusion, the students involved in the research made a number of errors. It was found that the students’ ability to use subject-verb agreement in English was still low.
Highlights
Language skill consists of four aspects: listening, speaking, reading and writing
Questionnaire was given to the participants in order to look for additional data that can support the data, which had been found through interview and document
Based on the analysis of the data and the description in the previous section, it can be concluded that the students in Langsa still had many difficulties in subject-verb agreement
Summary
Language skill consists of four aspects: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The last skill (writing) comes at the end of one’s mastery over the other three skills. It must be learned and practiced in a formal instructional setting. This skill needs the learner to generate ideas and transfer them into text. The gravity of difficulty goes up, because a learner has to consider the grammar, writing convention of the target language and the like of the target language systems. Grammar is a set of language rules governing the sounds, words, sentences, and other elements. It can be assumed that Indonesian learners of English must have difficulties in learning English grammar. They must have committed errors in the way of developing competence in EFL
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