ERROR ANALYSIS ON THE STUDENTS WRITING OF COMPLAINING LETTER AT FIFTH SEMESTER OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING DEPARTMENT Edulitics 2015 3 OF UNISDA LAMONGAN
Abstract
ABSTRACT: This study presents the analysis of errors made by the students of fifth semester of
English Language Teaching Department of UNISDA Lamongan in writing complaining letter based
on the surface structure. The researcher uses descriptive qualitative as the research design of this
study. In analyzing the data, the researcher follows some steps, they are: (1) coding the errors made
by the students, (2) classifying the errors the students made, (3) discussing and summarize the
findings. The researcher found that the level of grammatical accuracy in writing complaining letter
was 71%. Then, the level of grammatical inaccuracy in writing complaining letter was 29%. The
highest level of error was omission (51 errors or 48%). The second level of error was
misinformation (24 errors or 23%). The third level of error was addition (16 errors or 15%). The last
level of error was misordering (15 errors or 14%).
Keywords: Error Analysis, Writing, Complaining Letter
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