Morphological error found in the English essays of the fifth semester students of English Letters and Language Department of UIN Malang in 2008

ABSTRACT

This study investigates morphological error in the essays of the fifth semester students of English Letters and Language Department of UIN Malang in 2008. The objectives of this study are to find out the kinds of morphological error in students’ writings and describe the dominant morphological error found.

This study uses descriptive qualitative approach. The data collected from the essays of the fifth semester students of English Letters and Language Department of UIN Malang in 2008.

The result of this study shows that there are several morphological errors in English student’s essays of UIN Malang in the fifth semester (2008). The researcher found all types of morphological error in students’ writings, they are; Omission, addition, misformation and misordering except contain morpheme and article which belong to the branch of omission. The total number of morphological errors is 61 times. Based on the findings, she found that the most dominant kind of morphological error is omission with 25 times used or 40.98 %.

Since this study does not investigate the composition from native of other country, finally she suggestes to next researchers to conduce further research of English composition of various native from various country and compare them.