Errors Made By The Third Semester Students at IAIN Tulungagung in Using Punctuation Marks in Writing Essay

Meta Kartika, Wati, (2014) Errors Made By The Third Semester Students at IAIN Tulungagung in Using Punctuation Marks in Writing Essay. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

Keywords: errors, punctuation marks, writing essay In IAIN Tulungagung, writing is one of the main subjects for English Department Program. In the third semester’s student Academic Year 2013/2014, the students learn about ‘essay’. Essay itself is a group of paragraph about a specific subject. Usually, it contains of five paragraphs. However, in writing essay, the students have some problems to be faced, and one of them is about ‘punctuation marks’. Sometimes, punctuation mark has seen as a little thing, but actually it has a big effect which influences a written work quality, they are grammatically and semantically effect. Actually, many errors were made by the students in using punctuation marks in writing essay. It would determine the quality of the students’ writing work. The formulation of the research problems were: 1) What are the errors made by the third semester students at IAIN Tulungagung in using punctuation marks in writing essay? 2) What are the dominant errors made by the third semester students at IAIN Tulungagung in using punctuation marks in writing essay? The purpose of this study were to: 1) Know what the errors made by the third semester students at IAIN Tulungagung in using punctuation marks in writing essay are, 2) Know the dominant errors made by the third semester students at IAIN Tulungagung in using punctuation marks in writing essay? Research Method: 1) the research design of this study was descriptive design with quantitative approach, 2) the population of this study was all the third semester students of English Department Program at IAIN Tulungagung, 3) the sample was A class consisting 27 students, 4) the instrument that is used to collect the data is documentation 5) the data analysis was identifying, classifying, and tabulating the errors made by the third semester in using punctuation marks in writing essay. The results showed that there are seven kinds of punctuation marks (comma, period, semicolon, colon, apostrophe, question mark, and exclamation mark) which are classified into three types of errors made by the students; consists of error of omission, addition, and misformation. In grammatically, there are 219 errors which 164 times error of omission, 39 times error of misinformation, and 16 times error of addition While in semantically, there are 48 errors which 32 error of omission, 9 times error of addition, and 7 times errors of misformation. viii Based on the data gotten by the researcher, the dominant errors showed in error of omission which in grammatically calculated 75%, and in semantically calculated 66%. Omission of comma is the highest occurred. So, it can be concluded that the students still made many errors in the using of punctuation marks in the two functions, grammatically and semantically. The students made the errors in three types; they were omission, addition, and misformation. Error of omission is the dominant error that the students made. After this thesis finishing, hopefully it can be helped the students to understand enough about the importance of using punctuation marks to their writing, and they know the function of punctuation marks itself.

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