Interlanguage in writing of early semester students of IBIT Denpasar

Abstract

The purpose of the study is aiming to discover the interlanguage system produce by students in writing an English composition. There were 25 descriptive text compositions as an instrument used to obtain the data. Qualitative research is administered in the study. Descriptive qualitative is used to evaluate and present data. The result of the study shows that most of the students' errors in English writing are omission (-s) as plural form 25 %, then, 6,2 % error in using an article, there were 5,7 % errors in the use of verb have and preposition. The surface structure taxonomy proposed by Carl James is administered to analyzing data. The type of error found in the student composition was an error in omission, addition, misformation, misordering and blend.

Keywords

• interlanguage
• descriptive text
• error analysis
• learning processes