Writer / NIM
SRI AMIELYA MARDJOEN / 321413120
Study Program
S1 - PENDIDIKAN BAHASA INGGRIS
Advisor 1 / NIDN
SRI WIDYARTI ALI, S.Pd, M.Hum / 0006098201
Advisor 2 / NIDN
FAHRIA MALABAR, S.Pd, M.A / 0005068601
Abstract
Sri Amielya Mardjoen. 2017. NIM 321413120. Students' Colloquial Errors in Academic Writing. Skripsi. English Department, Letter and Culture Faculty, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo. Advisor (1) Sri Widyarti Ali, S.Pd., M.Hum (2) Fahria Malabar, S.Pd., MA.
Mastering error concepts particularly colloquial error in writing skill is one of the important things for students in both understanding and producing academic writing. In learning English as foreign language, students are expected to write an essay and it must be written in formal academic style. In fact, students have no idea nor experience in producing that kind of writing. Regarding that, this study examines students' colloquial errors in academic writing particularly in argumentative essay and investigates the factors which caused the errors. After collecting the data from students' essay, the errors found are qualitatively analyzed based on Corder (1967). As the result, this study discovers students' errors in different types of colloquial error based on Partridge (1990), which are error in single word, clipped word, contraction, and verb-adverb combination. The errors mostly take place in single word. Besides, the interview result shows that the errors occur due to lack of knowledge, lack of vocabulary, and lack of motivation in the process of learning. Hence, in avoiding the error in academic writing, both students and lecturers must give more attention in learning process of writing specifically to the material of colloquial expression.
Keywords: colloquial, error, academic writing
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