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This resarch used descriptive quantitative method. This research aimed to find out subject- verb agreement errors made by sixth semester Engllish Education students of Universitas Bengkulu and to find out the possible causes of the errors. The samples of this research were sixth semester English Education students of Universitas Bengkulu in 2016/2017 academic year. The data were collected by conducting writing. The results of the data were analyzed descriptively by using Surface Strategy Taxonomy by Dulay et al (1982) to analyze the types of errors and theory of causes of errors by Richards (1974) to analyze the causes of errors. The result shows that there were 3 types of subject-verb agreement errors found in students’ essays. The errors were omission (49 %), addition (25 %) and misinformation (26 %). Another result shows that there were 2 possible causes of subject-verb agreement errors in this research. They were interlingual errors (2 %) and intralingual & developmental errors (98 %).
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References
Arikunto, S, & Suhardjono & Supardi. (2006). Penelitian Tindakan Kelas. Jakarta : Bumi Aksara.
Dulay, H. & Burt, M. & Krashen, S.D. (1982). Language Two. New York
: Oxford University Press.
Karim, S.M.S., & Fathema, F. & Hakim, A. (2015). An Analysis of Errors of Subject-Verb Agreement Among Bangladeshi Tertiary Level EFL Learners. International Islamic University of Chittagong : International Journal of Social Sciences
Mbau, A. T. & Marhum, M. & Muhsin. (2014). An Analysis on The Subject-Verb Agreement Errors in Writing Paragraph Made by the Second Semester Students of English Department.” Tadulako Universtiy : e-Journal of English Language Teaching Society.
Nayan, S. (2009). A Study of Subject-Verb Agreement: From Novice Writers to Expert Writers. Universiti Teknologi MARA Perlis : International Education Studies.
Quirk, R & Greenbaum, (1985). A Comprehensive Grammar of The English Language : London. Longman.
Richards, J. (1974). Error Analysis Perspective on Second Language Learning Acquisition. London : Cambridge University Pers
Sompong, M. (2014). Error Analysis.
Bangkok : Thammasat University
Svartvik, J. & Sager, O. (1986). Engelsk Universitetsgrammatik. Sweden : Scandinavian University Books.
Ur, P. (1996). A Course in Language Teaching : Practice and Theory. London : Cambridge University Pers.
Wahyudi, R. (2012). Error Analysis on Subject-Verb Agreement : The Case of A University Student in Indonesia. Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University : The International Institute of