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errors in English compositions. The types of errors in English compositions are
based on the theory of Professor James Hendrickson, in which the types of errors
are classified according to the linguistic category. Therefore, it includes the errors
in lexical, morphological, syntactic and orthographic categories. By discovering the
students? errors in writing their compositions, this thesis is also to show the most
committed type of errors based on linguistic category. I conduct my study by using
descriptive and text analysis approach. In this study, I collect the data from
Indonesian students who are learning English as a second language at the English
Department in Petra Christian University. Specifically, they are the students of
2003 who take their Writing I class in 2003/2004 academic year. I particularly use
picture story in order to raise their ideas in writing a composition. There are fifteen
drafts to be the data samples, which are then analyzed. The results of the analyses
show that the morphological errors gain the highest percentage, while the
orthographic errors get the lowest percentage in the compositions. It is important to
note that the syntactic errors also take a dominant percentage in the compositions.
Since the students mostly produced the morphological and syntactic errors, the
findings might suggest that most of the students have problems and difficulties in
the application of the Standard English grammar. In addition, it might also suggest
that the students? repertoire of English vocabulary items is sufficient in writing a
composition, due to the fact that the lexical errors only count for a small
percentage. Here, the students are able to use simple lexical items in appropriate
situation in writing their compositions.