Electronic Theses and Dissertation

The goal of this study is to know what errors of surface strategy made by the
students at SMP Negeri 4 Banda Aceh in writing are. The subject of this study was
the eighth grade students. Qualitative study was used as a method to obtain the data.
To analyze the data, the students’ writings were taken from the teachers in the form
of journal text. The technique used in analyzing the data was the technique suggested
by Corder (1974) which involves choosing the language corpus, identifying errors in
the corpus, classifying errors, explaining errors and evaluating errors. However, to
classify the errors, the writer used surface strategy taxonomy suggested by Dulay
(1982). It shows that all of the students produced the errors in surface strategy
including omission, addition, misformation and misordering. The most dominant
error was omission and it was followed by misformation, addition and misordering.
The students also made non surface strategy errors including past tense, spelling,
identifying the noun, creating ideas, and capitalization. At the end of the study, some
recommendations and suggestions were given as the way to minimize the students’
errors in writing.

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