AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON THE USE OF ENGLISH ARTICLES IN STUDENTS’ WRITTEN DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS A Case of Class X MIA 1 of SMA N 1 Binangun, Cilacap in the Academic Year 2014/2015
Abstract
This study is a case study which investigates errors on the use of English articles. It is focused on the errors made by tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Binangun, Cilacap in their written descriptive texts. The total of 32 students of class X MIA 1 became the subjects of this study and they were asked to write descriptive texts. The object of this study was errors in using English articles which occurred in their texts. The data were analyzed based on Ellis’s Error Analysis Procedure and normalization formula by Pica. The result of this study from the highest to the lowest exposed errors are: indefinite a/an-for-zero errors (61.51%), zero-for-indefinite a/an errors (22.19%), definite the-for-indefinite a/an substitution error (5%), definite the-for-zero substitution error (4.65%), zero-for-definite the substitution error (4.41%), and indefinite a/an-for-definite the substitution error (2.23%).Based on the result gained from this study, the dominant error exposed by the students is grammatical error (indefinite a/an-for-zero). This condition shows that the students find difficulties to differentiate between countable and non-countable nouns. It is suggested that the teacher give more attention to this problem and start to improve his attitude in teaching grammar.
References
Arikunto, S. 2002. Prosedur Penelitian: Suatu Pendekatan Praktis Edisi Revisi V. Yogyakarta: Rineka Cipta.
Barret, Edward Neil & Chen, Li-mei. 2011. English Articles Errors in Taiwanese College Students’ EFL Writing. Computational Linguistics and Chinese language Processing, Vol. 16, No. 3-4 (pp 1-20). Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Cheng Kung University 2011.
Boardman, Cynthia A, and Fryendberg, Jia. 2001. Writing to Communicate: Paragraph and Essays second edition. New York: Pearson education Inc.
Brown, H. Douglas. 2000. The Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, the fourth edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall inc.
Burges, J, and Etherington. 2002. Focus on Grammatical Form: Explicit or Implicit?. System:30 433-458.
Diaz-Bedmar, Maria Belen, and Silvia Papp. 2008. The Use of the English Article System by Chiese and Spanish Learners.
http://www.academia.edu/7740743/The_use_of_the_English_article_system_by_Chinese_and_Spanish_learners (April, 15 2015)
Ellis, Rod. 1997. Second language Acquisition. New York: Oxford University Press.
Ellis, Rod. 2003. The Study of Second Language Acquisition. New York: Oxford.
Goto-butler, Y. 2002. Second Language Learners’ Theories on The Use of English Articles: An Anlaysis of the Meta-linguistics Knowledge Used by Japanese Students in Acquiring The English Article System. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 24 (3), 451-480.
Guella, Hakima & Viviane Deprez & Petra Sleeman. 2008. Article Choice Parameters in L2. In Proceedings of the 9th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2007), ed. Roumyana Slabakova et al., 57-69. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Guillemin, Diana. 2013. English Articles.
http://www.grammar-matters.com/link/choice_of_article/ (March 5, 2015)
Huang, Joanna. 2002. Error Analysis in English Teaching: A Review of Studies. http://www.lib.csghs.tp.edu.tw (April 14, 2014)
Ionin, T. 2003. Article Semantics in second Language Acquisition. PhD dissertation, MIT. Distributed by MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
Johansson, Rolf. 2013. Case Study Methodology. A key note speech at the International Conference “Methodologies in Housing Research†organised by the Royal Institute of Technology in cooperation with the International Association of People–Environment Studies, Stockholm, 22–24 September 2003.
Khansir, Ali Akbar. 2012. Error Analysis and Second Language Acquisition. Theory and Practice in Language Studies Vol. 2 No.5 pp. 1029-1032. Finland: ACADEMY PUBLISHER.
Ko, Heejong, Alex Provic, Tania Ionin, and Ken Wexler. 2008. Semantic Universals and Variation in L2 Article Choice.
http://www.lingref.com/cpp/gasla/9/paper1631.pdf (April, 15 2015)
Kusumaningrum, Ratih Ayu. 2008. An Error Analysis on using The Definite and Indefinte Articles in Written Narrative Text (A Case of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA N 1 Kendal). Skripsi. Semarang: Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni UNNES.
Lamb, Martin. 2011. Dreams and Realities: Developing Countries and the Engliah Language. UK: British Council.
Lindita, Kacani. 2014. Grammatical Mistakes of Albanian Students in Learning English as Foreign Language. Mediterranean Journal of Social Science Vol. 5 No. 19 pp. 323-329
Mekhlafi, Abdu Mohammad, and Nagaratnam. 2011. Difficulties in Teaching and Learning Grammar in an English as Foreign Language Context. International Journal of Instruction Vol. 4 No. 2 pp. 69-92.
Moleong, Lexy J. 2004. Metodologi Penelitian Kualitatif. Bandung: PT. REMAJA ROSDA KARYA.
Oshima, Alice, & Ann Hogue. 1999. Writing Academic English. New York: Addison Weasly Longman.
Pawlak, M. 2012. Error Correction in the Foreign Classroom: Reconsidering the Issues. New York: Springer.
Rattar, Wazir Ali, & Muhammad Dilshad. 2010. Pedagogical Grammar in Second/Foreign Language Teaching Studying Learners’ Perceptions and Beliefs about Grammar. The S.U. Jour. of Ed. Vol.40, Issue 2010-11, Pp. 17- 30.
Rattar, Wazir Ali. Pedagogical Grammar in Second or Foreign Language Teaching;Studying Learners’ Perception about Grammar.
http://www.academia.edu/6884946/Pedagogical_grammar_in_second_foreign_language_teaching_studying_learners_perceptions_and_beliefs_about_grammar (March, 5 2015)
Tambunan, Debora & Gusti Astika. The Use of Articles in SMA Textbooks. 2012. English Edu Vol. 10, No. 2 pp. 167-181.
Widayani, Tutik. 2008. Error Analysis on Students’ Punctuation in Writing Dialogue (A Case Study on the Second Year students of SLTP N 1 Duplang, Blora in 2007/2008 Academic Year). Skripsi. Semarang: Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni UNNES.
Yin, Robert. 2009. Case Study Research: Design and Methods. London: Thousand Oaks.
Website Source:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/error+analysis (April, 15 2015)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
