ERROR ANALYSISON THE USE OF SIMPLE PRESENT TENSEIN PAPER ASSIGNMENT OF WRITING SUBJECTMADE BY THE FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTSOF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT STAIN SALATIGAIN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2011/2012

RAHMAWATI, RISTI YANI (2012) ERROR ANALYSISON THE USE OF SIMPLE PRESENT TENSEIN PAPER ASSIGNMENT OF WRITING SUBJECTMADE BY THE FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTSOF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT STAIN SALATIGAIN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2011/2012. Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Abstract

This study was carried out to describe the kinds of grammatical errors onthe use of simple present tense in paper assignment of writing subject made by thefourth semester students of English Department at STAIN Salatiga. This studywas also intended to give some contributions concerning the factors that influencethe grammatical errors on the use of simple present tense in students' paperassignment. This study is descriptive qualitative research. The writer had chosenthe fourth semester students of English Department at STAIN Salatiga in theacademic year of 201112012 and the subject were 47 students. The data wereanalyzed by using error analysis method. The error types were classified based onlinguistic category, especially surface strategy taxonomy. The factors thatinfluenced the errors were found out from the result of the interview. The result ofthis study showed that there were kinds of errors based on surface strategytaxonomy such as omission of subject, omission of to be in the simple presenttense, omission of -s/-es in the verb form, omission of prepositions, omission of -s/-es in the plural form, addition of s/-es in the singular form, addition ofpossessive marker ('s), addition of to be in the simple present tense, addition ofpreposition, misformation, and misordering. According to the result of the study,many errors in the students' paper assignments were due to several factors.Meanwhile, the dominant factor was the students' lack understanding of Englishgrammar.From the result above, the writer concludes that the students were stillmaking a lot of grammatical errors that were mainly influenced by the students'lack understanding of English grammar.

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