Background: The making of errors in second language acquisition, especially in writing, is natural, but the errors should not be ignored and need to be treated properly. Purpose: The purposes of this descriptive research are to identify the types of errors occured in the narrative writing of first-year students at STIE Port Numbay in Jayapura, explain the causes of the errors and the strategies applied to correct them and to prevent them from happening in the future. Design and methods: This research is a descriptive qualitative one that uses the content analysis method. The data were taken from 20 narrative writings about daily activities made by 20 first-year students of STIE Port Numbay in Jayapura who major in Development Economics and took the English 1 course in the Odd Semester of the 2020/2021 Academic Year. Results: The findings revealed that there are 9 types of error occured i.e. omission, addition, misselection, misordering, blending, misformations, misspellings, sentence errors and semantic errors in lexis. The errors are caused by interference of the first language or interlingual, inadequate mastery of the target language rules or intralingual and limited vocabulary. The strategies for the error correction are direct feedback and exposing the target language use by its native speakers so that the learners can compare it with their own L2 use. To prevent the same errors, the instructor can improve the learners' mastery of the target language rules by using creative and varied teaching methods and materials as well as encouraging the learners to develop the habit of reading English texts in order to improve their vocabulary and to obtain input about the use of English in writing. Keywords: Error analysis, interlingual, intralingual
Implementing community service by lecturers is one of the obligations of Tridharma Perguruan Tinggi (the three pillars of higher education practice). The implementation of a community service program through entrepreneurship assistance of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises for high school vocational students, students, and alums of STIE Port Numbay is expected to provide knowledge related to the management of the business being carried out, starting from financial management, the ability to introduce the business products to the community so that the implementation of their business and production continues to be sustainable, determining the right sales strategy and improving the quality of the products produced and make various models of the products as attractive as possible. For business actors who are just planning a business and those who have carried out business activities or whose businesses are already running, assistance is needed to be executed by the government, private sectors, and lecturers because it is a complete form of training and interaction built by the assistance team with Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises actors, including those who already have a business and those who want to develop their business continuously. Based on the results of communication and discussions during the assistance carried out by the STIE Port Numbay team, it is known that these business actors have limited knowledge in managing and developing the business being carried out, choosing the right business place, and marketing their business products.
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