| dc.description.abstract | Composition as one of the production skills is still very
difficult to the learners because it is rarely used outside the
classroom. The students make a number of errors in omission,
addition, misformation, and misordering in their writing. This
study concerned with error analysis in the surface strategy
taxonomy. The research subjects were the students who took
Writing I at the English Department of FKIP the University of
Jember 19971998 academic year as the population of this study.
The subjects were asked to write a composition in the form of a
short paragraph, then their compositions were analyzed by using
Ellis' outline based on the surface strategy taxonomy : omission,
addition, misformation, and misordering category. The results
showed that there were misformation errors 162 (43,20°/o},
omission errors 126 (33,60°/o), addition errors 69 (18,40°/o), and
misordering errors 18 (4,80o/o). The highest percentage was
misformati.on errors that reach 43,20 o/o. It indicates that the
students face difficulties in applying the correct tense marker,
preposition, and auxiliary. The lowest percentage was misordering
errors that reach 4,80 %. It indicates that the teaching and
learning English was successful especially in creating word order
in English. | en_US |
