Nasution, Feri Sandi (2019) Structure and written expression error analysis on TOEFL test students of english department Padangsidimpuan state institute for Islamic studies. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.
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Abstract
The problem of this research came from students’ errors in answering inverted subject-verb item, adjective clause item, and noun clause item in TOEFL test. The errors found in their in their answer sheets could be analyzed, so that it rose a study of error analysis. By the error analysis, it could describe the analyzed errors clearly. Those errors became something important for the students to study, even if it became a further study. The objectives of this research are to identify and to analyze the errors found in inverted subject-verb item, adjective clause item, and noun clause item in structure and written expression section of TOEFL test 3 and test 4, and to find the dominant errors of each analyzed item in TOEFL test 3 and test 4. This was a library research which used document analysis method. The participants of this research were 9 students of English departments. The data were collected from students’ documents of question sheets and answer sheets in TOEFL test 3 and test 4. Analysis of the data consisted of 5 steps; they are data managing, reading/memoing, description, classifying, and interpreting. This research used member checking to check data trustworthiness. Based on the result of the research, there were 22 errors found in test 3 and 26 errors found in test 4. In the test 3, all 22 errors were classified into error of addition with the detail as follows; 8 errors in inverted subject-verb, 2 errors in adjective clause, and 12 errors in noun clause. In the test 4, 26 errors were classified into different kinds of error. 7 errors found in inverted subject-verb; 1 error of addition and 6 errors of misordering. 6 errors found in adjective clause; 5 errors of omission and 1 error of misformation. 5 errors found in noun clause number 9; 3 errors of addition and 2 errors of misformation. 8 errors found in noun clause number 11; 7 errors of omission and 1 error of misordering
Item Type: | Thesis (Undergraduate) |
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Keywords: | Error analysis; inverted subject-verb; adjective clause; noun clause |
Subjects: | 13 EDUCATION > 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy > 130204 English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL) |
Divisions: | Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Ilmu Keguruan > Tadris Bahasa Inggris |
Depositing User: | Ms. Suci Syahfifa Nasution |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jun 2020 01:16 |
Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2020 01:16 |
URI: | http://etd.uinsyahada.ac.id/id/eprint/2719 |
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