AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ SENTENCE STRUCTURE IN PARAGRAPH WRITING BASED ON SURFACE STRATEGY TAXONOMY AT THE SECOND YEAR OF SMA NASIONAL MAKASSAR

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the types of errors in sentence structure in paragraphs based on the Surface Strategy Taxonomy made by the Second Year Student of senior High School. The researcher used descriptive quantitative method. The sample of this study was 30 students in one class who were selected as the subjects by using a purposive sampling technique. The researcher used writing test as the instrument of this study. The researcher found 52 errors made by the students at the second year of Senior High School Nasional Makassar. Those errors can be classified as follow: 21.16% errors in omission, 21.16% errors in addition, 28.84% errors in misformation, 28.84% errors in misordering. It indicates that the students still have problem in constructing well-formed sentence in writing. Omission error can be divided into five parts namely: Article, noun, to be as auxiliaries, preposition, s/es as plural marker. Addition error can be divided into three parts namely: double marking, regularization and simple addition. Misformation can be divided three parts namely: regularization, archi-form and alternating form. The last is mis-ordering of errors.