THE ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR DEVIATION OF GRAFFITI WRITTEN ON CLOTHES SOLD IN RAMAYANA DEPARTMENT STORE IN BANYUWANGI

Abstract

Internationally, English plays an important role in many fields around the world. Thus, Indonesian views English as a must of a new language to learn. Yet, it is not an easy task to learn because of grammatical distinctive features owned by both languages. As the result, errors will automatically arise in the process of learning English. However, errors committed by foreign language learners (FLLs) are seen to be helpful for them because the errors can be used as their device to make better progress. Dealing with this study, the researcher uses the data of erroneous English graffiti in clothes sold in Ramayana, Department Store, Banyuwangi to be analyzed. There are 15 clothes having errors which are carefully analyzed based on four types of error according to surface strategy taxonomy theory. The significance of doing this analysis is that it can hopefully improve FLL’s understanding and abilit y using another strategy of learning English in informal language environment. Besides, the researcher uses descriptive method and qualitative data as the type of data. The researcher uses four steps to analyze the data. Firstly, collecting the data which are directly previously chosen by taking the pictures of the clothes sold in Ramayana, Department Store, Banyuwangi. Secondly, the researcher identifies the data. Thirdly, explanation of the error is conducted. Fourthly, the researcher makes correction for those errors. The result of the research shows that the total number of errors written on clothes is 40 errors consisting of four types of error category but those errors do not include all subcategories of errors. Here, omission error becomes the most dominant error written by the graffiti designer. Besides, it is indicated that the errors produced by the designer may be caused by Indonesian interference.