ABILIO DA COSTA XIMENES 2017 AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON DESCRIPTIVE WRITING TEXT COMMITED BY THE FIFTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL UNIVERSITY DILI IN ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017. GRADUATE ENGLISH EDUCATION PROGRAM OF POST GRADUATE SCHOOL OF NUSA OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NUSA CENDANA KUPANG. FIRST SUPERVISOR PROF. DR. FRANSISKUS BUSTAN, M.LIB AND SECOND SUPERVISOR DR. CLEMENS KOLO, MAT.
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This research is conducted to (1) describe and explain the grammatical errors and the likely sources of errors done by the fifth semester students of English Department of Teaching and Education Faculty Oriental University of Dili in the academic year of 2017 in writing descriptive text, and (2) describe the causes of the errors. The participants of this research were 15 of the class B students. The descriptive qualitative method was used in this research. To collect data the researcher used writing test. The collected data was identified, classified, and analysed based on the types of error using Dulay?s theory. The result of this research showed that based on the surface strategy taxonomy, the students tended to commit errors in the form of addition ( 89 errors = 29, 08%), in the form of omission (76 errors =24.84% miss-formation (71 errors =23,.20%) out of the total errors were 306 errors 25%), while in the form of miss-formation were(70 error = 22,88%), and in the form of. The reasons why they done errors because of the students lacked English grammatical rules mastery and different language rules between Tetum language and English language.
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