Errors Analysis on Information Technology Students’ Writing

Lembar Pengesahan tidak disertai tanda tangan dosen pembimbingThis study aimed to investigate the types of grammatical errors found in the Faculty of Information and Technology students‟ writing. The data were collected from 20 essays entitled “My Experience�. In analyzing the data, I used steps suggested by Corder (1974) as cited in Ellis and Barkhuizen (2005). First, a native speaker teacher helped identify the grammatical errors in the participants‟ work. Second, the errors would be classified based on Linguistic Taxonomy proposed by Politzer and Ramirez (1973) as cited in Dulay, Burt and Krashen (1982). Third, based on the identification of errors, each category of errors was counted to find each propotion. Finally, each category of errors was explained and discussed. The result of the study show that English tenses (190 errors or 30.60%) were found to be the most common grammatical errors followed by errors in articles (155 errors or 24.96%), prepositions (104 errors or 16.75%), singular/plurals (60 errors or 9.66%), subject-verb agreements (57 errors or 9.18%), possessives (32 errors or 5.15%), and pronoun (23 errors or 3.70%). This research concluded by discussing the pedagogical implication