Linguistic Errors and Their Relationship with the Learning Development of English Department Students

 

 

Ferry Adenan

 

 

The purposes of the present study are: (1) to identify the types of errors students make in learning English as a foreign language; and (2) to find out whether the semester the students are in enforces an influence in the production of errors. An Indonesian-English translation test was given to elicit data. The following findings are identified. First, types of error are identified and ranked as follows: diction (42.38%), numbers (12.83%), preposition (10.75%), articles (10.12%), tenses (9.27%), concord (5.29%), word order (5.1%), and spelling (4.3%). The t tests give the following results: Semester II vs Semester IV (t = 4,266; p = 0.000), Semester IV vs Semester VI (t = 2,199; p = 0.030), Semester VI and Semester VIII (t = 3,348; p = 0,075), and Semester VIII vs Semester X (t = 2,325; p = 0,020). Both findings can be used as a consideration for the management of the learning and teaching process so that students’ achievement can be optimized.

 

 

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Adenan, F. (2002). Kesilapan kebahasaan dan hubungannya dengan perkembangan pembelajaran mahasiswa jurusan pendidikan bahasa Inggris [Linguistic errors and their relationship with the learning development of English department students]. Bahasa dan Seni, 30(1), 17-26.

 

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