Syntactical Errors in Writing Produced by the Third Semester Students of English and Literature Department of Alauddin State Islamic University of Makassar

Main Author: A. Nurmillatul H, A. Nurmillatul H
Format: Report NonPeerReviewed Book
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2019
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Online Access: http://repositori.uin-alauddin.ac.id/16706/1/A%20NURMILATUL%20H.pdf
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  • This research was about syntactical errors in writing which was produced by the third semester students of English and Literature Department of Alauddin State Islamic University of Makassar. This research based on the surface strategy taxonomy theory by Dulay, Burt and Krashen. This research applied descriptive qualitative method. The instrument of this research was the researcher herself and the students' final writing examination sheets as data source. The findings revealed that the students committed 328 omission errors, 149 addition errors, 223 malformation errors and 11 disordering errors. Based on the result, omission errors were the most dominant errors that occurred in their writing. The researcher concluded that the students tended to produce syntactical errors when they wrote a text.