Errors in EFL writing by junior high students in Indonesia

Mustafa, Faisal; Kirana, Mulya; Ys, Syamsul Bahri

doi:10.5861/ijrsll.2016.1366

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“…The students committed the errors because of the difference between the students' first language system and the target language system. In this case, the first language, such as Bahasa Indonesia, verbs do not inflect either for tense or agreement, nouns do not inflect for plurality, and article rules in Bahasa Indonesia are too simple compared to those of English (Faisal, Mulya, & Syamsul, 2016).…”

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ERRORS ANALYSIS IN SHORT BIOGRAPHY TEXT WRITTEN BY THE 11th GRADE STUDENTS OF A VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL IN SINGARAJA

Suwastini

Yukti

2017

IJLL

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This study was a descriptive qualitative study aimed at analysing types of error and sources of error in the short biography text writings in English language teaching (ELT) context. The subject of this study was 11 th Grade of Accounting Department Students of a Vocational High School in Singaraja in the academic year 2015/2016. The instruments in the study were researcher, tabulation table, and interview guide. The textual analysis design was used in this study to gather the data. The students' errors were analysed according to surface strategy taxonomy by Dulay et al. (1982). This study revealed that misformation was the most frequent errors occurred in the students' writings, followed by omission, addition, and misordering. Furthermore, the sources of error were identified according to four sources of error by Brown (2007). This study found that interlingual transfer was the main sources of students' errors, followed by context of learning, interlingual transfer, and communication strategy. Related to these findings, the present study suggested that teachers pay more serious attention to students' errors by comparing the students' first language system and the target language system in order to avoid errors.

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Section: Evaluation Of the Students' Errormentioning

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ERRORS ANALYSIS IN SHORT BIOGRAPHY TEXT WRITTEN BY THE 11th GRADE STUDENTS OF A VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL IN SINGARAJA

Suwastini

Yukti

2017

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“…This is also supported by Al Murshidi (2014) who believes that generating ideas might also be a challenge that stops students from completing a writing task and it could be due to limited exposure to writing strategy (Mastan, Maarof, & Embi, 2017). In a study conducted by Mustafa, Kirana, and Bahri (2017) it is evident that students have problems in word choice. For example, the word order of the sentence might not be correct as they might misuse verb instead of noun.…”

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Using Q2 Write Strategy to Improve Primary School Pupils Essay Writing Quality

Sivagnanam

Yunus

2020

International Journal of English Language and Literature Studie

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of using Q2Write strategy to improve the writing skills among English as second language learners. The aim was to determine if the students who used Q2Write strategy produced better written texts holistically. The subjects of the study were 23, 11-year-old students from Sekolah Kebangsaan Batu Kikir, Negeri Sembilan. Students were selected using purposive sampling method. The pre-test and post-test scores were used as the main findings and supplemented by the findings from semi structured interview. Participants were required to write essays and participate in a semi structured interview. Five students from the participants were selected based on their essay scores and band for the interview at the end of the study. The study results indicated that Q2Write strategy is effective in improving the quality of essay writing as the participants were able to create better quality essays after implementing Q2Write strategy. The results also indicate that participants were able to improvise their essay in terms of organization, vocabulary usage, sentence construction and relevance of idea. Contribution/ Originality: This study contributes in the existing literature on ESL writing strategy. It examines the use of Q2Write strategy by the pupils in ESL classrooms, particularly at a primary school and the effectiveness of the strategy in improving pupils" essay quality. 1. INTRODUCTION Al-Khasawneh and Maher (2010) stated that large scale of international links in terms of non-native communication and projects are usually done in English. It is important to enhance writing skills because gaining good knowledge and improving writing skills effectively can lead the students to get professional success in the future (Azam, Fadhil, & Yunus, 2019; Yunus, Salehi, & Nordin, 2012). It is carried out in large settings in areas such as trade market, tourism, journalism, politics and more. This statement reflects the importance of learning proper writing skill from the beginning in order to be a competent writer in today"s situation. Thus, the requirement to master English for different purposes is deemed as a key skill. In ESL education field, the importance of writing skill is dominant due to the need of completing assignments, projects, examinations etc. According to Sadiq (2010) ESL classes should pay more attention to writing skill so that the students will be prepared to cope with real life situations. Kartawijaya (2018) also shared his view that writing is not a skill acquired naturally because one could not obtain this skill involuntarily and effortlessly. To acquire it, the students should be given adequate writing

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“…The fact that articles, tenses and concord have the highest occurrences in the students' ill-formed sentence construction implies that the students possibly have difficulties in these grammatical categories, chiefly because the L1 and L2 rules for the use of article, tenses and concord are very different. Indonesians tend to ignore and omit the use of article in L1 structure, and this habit is often transferred by Indonesian EFL learners when they are learning L2 (Mustafa et al, 2016). In the term of tenses, Bahasa does not have complex rules to indicate certain tenses; hence, EFL learners, particularly who are still in the beginner or intermediate level, often encounter difficulties in constructing L2 sentences with appropriate tenses.…”

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“…In other words, Thai students keep relying on their L1 structure when producing L2, which results in the illformed sentence construction. On the other hand, in Indonesia, students tend to make illformed sentence construction in the form of subject-verb agreement and article (Mustafa et al, 2016).…”

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A Preliminary Study on Efl Students’ Grammatical Competence in Descriptive Writing Task

Juliaty

Abetnego

2019

JOLL

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This study aims to identify and examine the ill-formed sentence construction in a descriptive text produced by Indonesian senior high school students, focusing on eight grammatical categories classified by James (1998): prepositions, articles, singular and plural nouns, adjectives, irregular verbs, tenses, concord and possessive case. The study used qualitative research and text analysis to examine five senior high school students' descriptive texts. The findings showed that there were seven grammatical categories occurred in the ill-formed sentence construction in the students' descriptive texts. Those grammatical categories include prepositions, articles, singular and plural nouns, adjectives, tenses, concord and possessive case. In addition, this study also found that the most frequently occurred ill-formed sentence construction in the descriptive text appeared in the grammatical forms of articles, tenses and concord.

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Errors in EFL writing by junior high students in Indonesia

Cited by 27 publications

References 22 publications

ERRORS ANALYSIS IN SHORT BIOGRAPHY TEXT WRITTEN BY THE 11th GRADE STUDENTS OF A VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL IN SINGARAJA

ERRORS ANALYSIS IN SHORT BIOGRAPHY TEXT WRITTEN BY THE 11th GRADE STUDENTS OF A VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL IN SINGARAJA

Using Q2 Write Strategy to Improve Primary School Pupils Essay Writing Quality

A Preliminary Study on Efl Students’ Grammatical Competence in Descriptive Writing Task

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