An Error Analysis of Students' Writing Assignments
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The objective of this descriptive study was to analyze students' grammatical errors in writing assignments, case a cover letter for second-semester Computer Science students at University Semarang. target population included 21 enrolled Business English class chosen randomly from pool 50 participants. They were asked write an application English. Then, using the surface approach taxonomy, researcher examined following errors: 1. Omission Errors; 2. Addition 3. Misinformation and 4. Misordering Errors. findings show that student range most common least common, with total 67 phrases: (1) 38.8%, (2) on Sub-Alternating Forms 23.8%, (3) sub-Simple 22.3%, (4) sub-Alternating 8.9%, (5) sub double markings 2.9%, (6) regularization 2.9%. type (sub-regularization) categories do not appear all (0%). According data above, pupils still comprehend how employ basic grammar structures or first language (L1) affects sentences are formed English.@font-face {font-family:SimSun; panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1; mso-font-alt:宋体; mso-font-charset:134; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:515 680460288 22 262145 0;}@font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; 4 5 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-signature:3 {font-family:Calibri; 15 mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-signature:-469750017 -1073732485 9 511 {font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-font-signature:647 159 {font-family:"\@SimSun"; 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-fareast-language:EN-ID;}div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;}
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Eternal English Teaching Journal
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2614-1639', '2086-5473']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26877/eternal.v14i1.14445