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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is based on an error analysis of the written work of the Tourism
Department students who have finished four semesters of a diploma program. The
source of the data consists of twenty-five compositions written by twenty-five
Advanced English students of Tourism Department at Petra Christian University.
In conducting this study, the writer collected the data from the students of 2001
who took Advanced English class in 2004/2005 academic year. The purposes of
the study are to reveal parts of speech errors and to find out the types of errors and
their frequency of occurrence in the students? compositions. The errors are
identified and classified using Linguistic Category Taxonomy. In addition, to
describe the errors, Surface Strategy Taxonomy is used to show the surface
changes are altered. The findings present the types of parts of speech errors, their
detail description, and the frequency of occurrence of each error type. The result
of the analysis shows that the verb category gains the highest percentage, while
the adverb category gains the lowest percentage. Another category, noun also
takes a dominant percentage in the whole errors. The findings show that the
students do not commit many errors in the adverb. Viewed form the Surface
Strategy Taxonomy, there are three types of error that occur in this study, which
are omission, addition and misformation. The misordering type does not occur in
this study. The students mostly committed errors on omission. It is proved by the
high percentage of omission type. The other two surface changes, addition and
misformation, also contribute certain numbers of error frequency. By doing this
study, it is hoped that this study will give an input concerning the advanced
learners? errors dealing with English parts of speech.