THE INFLUENCE OF INDONESIAN LANGUAGE ON THE PRODUCTION OF ERRORS IN WRITTEN LANGUAGE OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS ACADEMIC YEAR 2006/2007 FACULTY OF LETTERS JEMBER UNIVERSITY

Abstract

This thesis is aimed at revealing erroneous in written language made by English Department Students Faculty of Letters, Jember University Academic Year 2006/2007. This thesis deals with an applied linguistics, especially psycholinguistics and emphasizes on error analysis. The data of this research are directly got from the chosen samples that have been selected before. They are asked to write an essay with the topic that has been decided by the researcher. The errors found in the essays are then identified and analyzed according to four types of errors –omission errors, addition errors, misformations, and misorderings. Next is that the explanation of errors. The result shows that the errors they have made are mostly caused by their L1. Therefore they often use their L 1 utterances and directly translate the utterances into the TL to produce L 2 utterances.