Journal of English Language Teaching
Vol 10, No 1 (2021)

An Analysis on the Subject-Verb Agreement Errors in Speaking Performance Made by the Second Year Students of English Department Students of UNP

Rizkiah Nadiroh Nasution (Universitas Negeri Padang)
Zul Amri (Universitas Negeri Padang)



Article Info

Publish Date
02 Mar 2021

Abstract

This research aimed at identifying the subject-verb agreement errors in students’ speaking performance, finding out mostly the types of errors in applying the subject-verb agreement also finding out the source of errors made by the second-year students of English department of UNP. This research applied a descriptive qualitative research design with 28 students who participated in this study. The data of the research were collected through a test instrument. The test instrument covers a speaking test in a report form. All of the errors that were identified in subject-verb agreement were analyzing by using Surface Strategy Taxonomy introduced by Dulay et,al. the result of data analysis showed that the students contributed into four types of errors in subject-verb agreement’s term, they are (1) omission (38 errors / 25 %), (2) addition (47 errors / 27%). (3) misformation ( 76 / 45%), (4) misordering (10 errors / 6%). Furthermore, the research also found the sources of errors made by the students during his/her speaking report test, the frequent sources of errors are Intralingual transfer there are totally (100 errors / 57%), Interlingual transfer (45 errors / 25%), communication strategy ( 17 errors / 10 %) and the last one is context of learning ( 14 errors / 8%)

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jelt

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal of English Language Teaching is a journal published by English Language Teaching Study Program of FBS Universitas Negeri Padang. This journal is published three times a year (March, June, and September). The main purpose of this journal is to advance and foster English Language Teaching or ...