An Error Analysis On Complex Sentences Made by The Second Year Students of English Education Program of STAIN Tulungagung in Writing Class

Dwi, Rayawati, (2013) An Error Analysis On Complex Sentences Made by The Second Year Students of English Education Program of STAIN Tulungagung in Writing Class. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

Keywords: Error Analysis, Complex Sentences, writing As one of the sentences type that often used by the students in writing, complex sentence may play essential role in producing good writing because it is often more effective than other sentences type, since it indicates clearer and more specific relationships between the main parts of the sentence. Through complex sentences, we can put prominence on the idea that in a clause. Thus, the flow of thoughts will run much more smoothly, compared with a series of ideas expressed in simple sentences. However it is not easy to make good writing using complex sentences. Some students often found some difficulties in organizing the good sentences. Some may face difficulties in various aspects, including grammar one. Those difficulties faced by students are what then become mistakes or errors. This study was conducted to find out the answer of question”(1) What types of errors do the second year students of English Education Program of STAIN Tulungagung make in constructing complex sentences?, (2) What is the frequency of occurrence of the error in each type?, (3) What deviation of complex sentences rules do the students make?” The purposes of the study are: (1) To know the types of errors made by the students of English Education Program of STAIN Tulungagung in constructing complex sentences. (2) To know the frequency of occurrence of the error in each type. (3) To know the deviation of complex sentences rules made by the students. This research is descriptive design with quantitative approach.The population of this study was all the second year student of English Education Program of STAIN Tulungagung. The sample was 50 students’ writing that were chosen from ten students in every class randomly. The instruments used in this research was document. The data analysis was using error analysis.The study classified the students’ errors based on the surface strategy taxonomy errors that were classified as omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. Besides, the errors were also classified in the terms of any possible properties of grammar used by the students in constructing English complex sentences and any deviations of complex sentence rules. This study found that there were 270 errors made by the students in composing their complex sentences in terms of any possible properties of grammar (for instance tense, preposition, pronoun, etc). Furthermore, the high frequency of occurrence was omission 43%, followed by misformation 37%, addition 17.8%, and misordering 2.2%. The study was also identified any deviation of complex sentences rules found from students’ writing. The students vii made 53 or 19.6% of error in any deviation of complex sentences from 270 of total error in any possible properties of grammatical aspect. In addition, in the case of any deviation of complex sentences rules, the writer found the type of errors which appeared in the students’ writing was error of addition of comma (30.2%), error of omission of comma (34%), misformation of subordinator (20.7%), omission of subordinator (13.2%) and error of addition of subordinator (1.9%). Based on these findings it can be concluded that the students’ problems in constructing complex sentences lay on the use of punctuation and subordinator. It is suggested that the improvement of the students’ mastery in English complex sentences begins with the teaching of subordinator and its punctuation in adjective clause as well as adverbial clause. viii

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