Abstract
This study aimes to identify the types of errors in the students' writing, to know the frequencies of each type of errors, and to investigate the causes of errors. There are three types of errors occured in the students' writing namely lexical error, syntactical error, and discourse error. The errors can be categorized into twenty four subcategories of errors: wrong spelling words (10,35%), wrong selection words (15,53%), omission verb (0,74%), omission v-ing after preposition for (0,55%), addition unnecessary verb (0,74%), using simple present tense refers to simple past (22,37%), use simple future instead of past future (2,40%), using irregular past verb tense after to infinitive (2,40%), addition final ed after to infinitive (1,85%), addition v-ing after to infinitive (1,11%), addition double marking verb (1,66%), omission to be (11,65%), addition to be (1,29%), omission s/es in the use of plural noun (2,40%), addition s in singular noun (1,29%), omission article (6,47%), addition unnecessary article (1,66%), wrong article (1,11%), wrong subject pronoun (2,03%), wrong object pronoun (0,55%), wrong possessive pronoun (2,03%), generic structure (2,96%), reference (2,03%), wrong selection conjunction (4,81%). The most dominant error is in syntactical error i.e. using simple present tense refers to simple past with the percentage 22,37%. Those errors are caused by four aspects, they are overgeneralization, incomplete application of rules, ignorance of rule restrictions, and false concept hypothesized.
Highlights
When someone learns a foreign language especially English, he/she often faces a kind of error, where they apply their mother tongue or first language structure to structure of the foreign language which is different from their native language
The most dominant error is in syntactical error i.e. using simple present tense refers to simple past with the percentage 22,37%
Those errors are caused by four aspects, they are overgeneralization, incomplete application of rules, ignorance of rule restrictions, and false concept hypothesized
Summary
When someone learns a foreign language especially English, he/she often faces a kind of error, where they apply their mother tongue or first language structure to structure of the foreign language which is different from their native language. When the teachers teach in the school, they will find many phenomena; they will find many students who have good writing in English, many students who have middle writing, and may be they will find many students who have low ability in writing English.Vocational students use English as the foreign language, English subject is compulsory in the curriculum 2013 and one of the subject that students must learn is writing. As the students learn more about English, many errors will appear They replace one tense with the other tense(s), and they fail to construct the correct verb forms for these tenses. They often commit the error in their writing production. Sulastri gave neakle to Kirana, Kirana so funny after Kirana use neakle Kirana tunn into golden slug and to throw away in [...] river
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