Pre-Test Error Analysis
Section A: Mention
1. What is Error Analysis
2. Types of Error in Academic
writing
3. Types of Error in
students’ Thesis writing
SECTION B:
Instruction: read the text carefully and answer the Questions below:
Semantics is the study of meaning in language.
Semantics focusing on the relation between signifiers, like words, phrases,
signs, and symbols. Linguistics semantics is the study of meaning that is used
for understanding human expression through language. Semantics tried to
understanding what meaning was as an element of language and how it is
constructing by language as well as interpretation, obscured and negotiated by
speakers and listeners of language. Semantics is a highly theoretical research
perspective and looks at meaning in language in isolation, in the language it
self.
Furthermore, semantics is the study of the “toolkit”
for meaning, knowledge encoded in the vocabulary of the language and in its patterns for building more elaborate
meanings, up to the level of the sentence meanings. An understanding of
semantics is essential to the study of language acquisition, how language users
acquired a sense of meaning, as speakers and writers, listeners and readers and
of language change, how meanings alter over time. It is important for
understanding language in social contexts, as these are likely to affect
meaning, and for understanding varieties of English and effects of style. It is
thus one of the most fundamental concepts in linguistics.
In fact: semantics is one of the main branches of
contemporary linguistics. It is one of pure linguistics branches. The study of
semantics included the study of how meaning is constructed, interpreted,
clarified, obscured, illustrated, simplified negotiated, contradicted and
paraphrased. Semantics looks for general rules that bring out the relationship
between forms, which is the observed arrangement of words in sentences and
meaning. All people necessarily interested in meaning. Wonder about the meaning
of a new word is human nature. Sometimes is hard to ensure the message from
such kind of reading and listening as well as concerned about getting the own
messages across the others. Finding pleasure in jokes, which often depend for
the humor on double meanings of words or ambiguities in the sentences.
Here, the researcher would like to apply English
proverbs through semantics point of view. Proverbs are short message of good
advice. Some tell us how to act, while others make a general statement from
which we can learn something. Moreover, Proverbs are short expressions of
popular wisdom. Proverbs are short and pithy sayings that express some
traditionally held truth. They are usually metaphorical and often: for the sake
of alliterative. And, as so many proverbs offer advice and uplift, many f them
are religious in origin. Proverbs is one of the interesting studies to apply
through semantics view. Thus, the researcher would like to conducted the
correlation research on correlating students’ ability in semantics and their
ability to appreciate English proverbs.
Regards to the syllabus got from the semantics
lecturer, the students’ should be able to understanding proverbs as one of
subfields in semantics. They are targeted to get the meaning
Even appreciate English proverbs. Afterward, there are some phenomena are
faced by the students in semantics class which indicate semantics is very
totally hard. First of all, students are difficult to understand what semantics
is. They are still perplexed to distinguish semantics and other sub discipline
of linguistics. Furthermore, the students were difficult obtained the meaning
of certain words on semantics view. Students often give meaning on students are
so quiet difficult to understand and explain the English proverbs through
semantics view because proverbs merely use the expression language that the
students rarely hear. They are difficults to get the meaning of proverbs as the
requirements of semantics studies. Researching the students’ comprehending toward English proverbs is really
excited but challenging. Because not all of the students familiar with the
terms also all highs beyond English proverbs. Thus, the delightfully researcher
are to research the students’ ability in appreciating English proverbs surely
after they have proverbs meeting. To ensure whether they understand it or not,
the researcher is going to prove it by conducting correlation research which
use two variables. Therefore, the researcher is going to conduct correlation research
entitled “The students’ to Appreciate Famous English Proverbs”. The researcher
will carried out the researchs at the seventh semester of English Department in
Lancang Kuning of University.
Questions:
1. Find the types and numbers
of errors in the text above ?
2. Mentions top-3 of the
errors in the terms of Frequency and Percentage from the text above
3. Which paragraph seems to
have the largest number of Errors?
ANSWER:
SECTION A
1. Error Analysis is one of
theoretical as well as methodological concepts that used by the researcher and
teachers which involves collecting samples of learner language, identifying the
errors in the sample, describing these errors, classifying them according to
their nature and causes, and evaluating their seriousness.
2. Types of error in Academic
writing
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Subject-verb agreement errors
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Verb tense errors
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Verb form errors
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Singular/plural noun ending errors
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Word form errors
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Sentence structure errors
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Word choice errors
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Articles
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Prepositions of location, time or direction
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Phrasal verbs
3. Types of error in
students’ thesis writing
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form (e.g., omission, insertion, substitution)
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type (systematic errors/errors in competence vs. occasional
errors/errors in performance)
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norm vs. system
SECTION B
1. Types and numbers of
errors in the text above
P-1:
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Type: Verb tense
errors
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Numbers: 5
P-2:
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Type : Sentence
structure errors, Word choice errors
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Numbers: 2
P-3:
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Type: Sentence structure errors
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Numbers:
P-4:
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Type:
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Numbers:
P-5:
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Type:
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Numbers:
P-6:
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Type:
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Numbers:
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