An Analysis of Students' Error in Using Possesive Adjective in Their Online Writing Tasks

AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ERROR IN USING
POSSESIVE ADJECTIVE IN THEIR ONLINE WRITING

TASKS
A RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Submitted to the English Education Program

Faculty of Teacher Training and Educational Sciences of Galuh University
to be Presented in a Research Proposal Seminar
By
RIZAL PRATAMA FIRDAUS
2109170105
ENGLISH EDUCATION PROGRAM

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES
GALUHUNIVERSITY
2018
Template of Qualitative Research

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Faculty of Teacher Training & Education
Galuh University
A. Proposed title of the study
The tittle of the study will be an analysis of students’ error in using
possessive adjective in their online writing task.
B. Introduction
1. Background of the study
Lately, students in junior high school are demanded to master reading,
speaking, listening, and writing. From those skills, writing is the most difficult
one for all language learners whether the language is the first, second, or foreign
language, ‘both in mother tongue and in foreign language. Writing is a way to
express feelings, ideas, arguments, willingnes and thoughts in the form of words
in sentences. This language skill is used to communicate from one to another by
writing. According to Pope, ‘writing can be briefly defined as the activity of
making verbal marks on paper or some other substance (stone, wood, plastic,
computer screen, etc.); also what results (i.e. a
piece of writing)’ (1998:255)
Levy (1997) defined computer-assisted language learning (CALL) as “the
search for and study of applications of the computer in language teaching and
learning” (Levy, 1997, p.1). this CALL approach was used for activities that
involved communication such as conversations, written tasks, critical thingking,
etc. some activities such as spelling, grammar checks and text reconstruction
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programs were another model of computer as a tool. Teacher use communication
and written tasks in materials from possesive adjectives.
Leech (2006, p.87) says that possessive adjective is the possessive forms
my, your, his, her , its, our, their, are sometimes called ‘possesive determiners’
because they occur in determiner position, like the, in a noun phrase, alternatively,
they can be considered possessive pronouns.
The researcher choose topic that entitled “an analysis of students’error in
using possessive adjective in their online writing task”.
2. Research question
a. What kinds of possessive adjective errors are mostly errors
made by students in their online writing task ?
b. What causes possessive adjective errors are mostly errors
made by students in their online writing task ?
3. Purpose of the study
a. To know kinds of possessive adjective are mostly errors made
by students in their online writing task.
b. To know causes possessive adjective errors are mostly errors
made by students in their online writing task.
c.
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4. Significanceof the study
The result of the study will be great contribution to give
broader information and knowledge to the readers. The present study
is expected to give several aspects : 1) theoretically, 2) practically, and
3) pedagogically.
Theoretically, the findings of the presents study are hoped to give
addition of information about students’ error in using possessive
adjective in their online writing tasks.
Practically, this result of this study also give the significance for
educational field, the researcher is expected to be able to know
students error in using possessive adjective in their online writing
tasks.
Pedagogically, the result of this study also give the significance
for educational field, the researcher hope this study could make
students understand themselves and make easier for them to writing
tasks.
5. Scope of the study
Based on the research question above, the researcher will limit the
discussion on analysis on students’ grammatical error in their writing
assignment. This study will conduct in junior high school ciamis.

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6. Definition of key terms
To avoid misunderstanding, the writer/researcher considers it is necessary
to define some key terms. There are some terminologies that will be used in this
study. They are key term 1, key term 2, and key term 3.
a. error
as davis and pearse (2002, p,13) ) state that ‘errors .
b. writing
according to celce-murcia, (2001, p.4) ‘ writing is the ability to
express one’s idea in writing in a second or foreign language and to do
so with reasonable coherence and accuracy is a major achievement.
C. computer-assisted language learning (CALL)
Levy 1997 defined computer-assisted language learning (CALL) as
“the search for and study of applications of the compiter in language
teaching and learning.
7. Research report organization
The research report be written in paper organization as follows :
Chapter 1 is introduction. It consists the background of the study, research
question, purpose of the study, significance of the study, scope of study, definition
of key terms and research report organization.

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Chapter 2 is review of literature. It consist defition of writing, definition of error,
the definition of grammar, definition of computer assisted language teaching and
learning.
Chapter 3 is methodology. It consist design, research procedure, research site, data
collection, data collection, data analysis, ethical consideration, research timeline,
bibliography and appendices.
Chapter 4 is result and discussion. It consist of result and findings.
Chapter 5 is conclusions and suggestions. It consists of conclusions and
suggestions.
D. Review of the literature
1. Definition of writing
Writing plays important role in language learning. It takes a long time to master since it take
achievment’. It means that in writing, one expresses ideas, opinion, feeling or
experience that somebody read or heard into the written form to develop his
writing skill.
The forms of coherent and cohesive paragraphs include stories, poem,
essays, journal, notes, letters, reports, and script for plays which can be
incorporated into exposition, narration, argumentation, and fiction, Klein (1985 in
palmer, 1994, p.9).
David-and pearse (2002, p.101) classify ‘writing into low level skills
(handwriting or typing, spelling, constructing grammatical sentences,

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punctuating). And high level cognitive skills (gathering ideas, organizing, and
sequencing, structuring, drafting, and editing).
2. Possessive adjectives
Leech (2006, p.87) says that possessive adjective is the possessive forms
my, your, his, her, its, our, there are sometimes called ‘possesive determiners’
because they occur in the determiner position, like the, in a nounphrase.
Alternatively, they can be considered possessive pronouns.
Possessive adjectives are followed immediately by a noun, they do not stand
alone, but refer to the prosessor and not to the thing possessed. My, your, his, her,
its, our and there are determines, while in grammars and dictionary, they are
called possessive adjectives.
E.g; this is my hat (my is the possessive adjective of the prosessor hat)
This part will show you how to criticize outside sources from books,
scholarly articles, and any other sources which relevant to the proposed topic is
being to researched.This part is mainly crucial for students to know hence its
urgency of study underpinning.
3.1 Error description
Dulay, burt, and krashen (1982, p.146-191) propose four descriptive
classifications to analyze errors. They are follows :
1). Error in linguistic taxonomy
Linguistic taxonomy classifies errors according to either or both the
language components and the particular linguistic constituent the error affects.
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Language components include phonology (pronounciation), syntax and
morphology (grammar), semantic and lexicon (meaning and vocabulary), and
discourse (style). Constituent includes the elements that comprise each language
component. For example, within syntax one may ask whether the error is in the
main or subordinate clause, which constituent is affected, e.g. the noun phrase, the
auxiliary, the verb phrase, the preposition, the adverb, the adjective, and so forth.
2. errors in surface strategy taxonomy
Surface strategy taxonomy highlights the ways surface strategy
perspective holds much promise for researchers concerned with identifying
cognitive processes that underlie the learner’s reconstruction of the new language.
A. Ommisions errors
An omission is a type of error which is “characterized by the absence of an
item that must appear in awell-formed utterance”. As we know that
morphemes or words cam be distinguished into two classes : content
words and grammatical words. Content words are those that carry the bulk
of referential meaning of a sentences such as nouns, verbs, adjectives,
adverbs, etc. grammatical or function words are those little words that play
a minor role in carrying the meaning of a sentence. They include noun and
verb inflection (-s, ed, ing) : the article (a, the, an) : verb auxiliaries (is,
will, can, may, etc); and preposition (in, on, or, etc). language learners
omit grammatical morphemes much more frequently than content words.
Omission of content words, although typical in the early stages of L1

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acquistion where the learner is older and more cognitively mature. If
content words are omitted in L2, it is usuallycaused by lack of vocabulary,
and learners usualy indicate their awareness of the missing constituent.
E.g. : johm is clever student. Ther is misiing “a” that should be john is a
clever students.
3). Error in communicative effect taxonomy
Communicative effect taxonomy deals with errors from the perspective at their
effect on the listener or reader. It focuses on distinguishing between errors that
seem to cause miss communication. This taxonomy classifies errors into :
b. Global errors
c. Global errors are the misuse of structure and thus damage or
breakdown communication. For example conjuction errors, which
involve the overall meaning of the sentence and major constituent
classes of the sentence or trnsformations, will seriously influence
comprehension of sentences.
d. e.g, : I saw their departmentor listeners do not know what the
sentence means.
readers
e. Local errors
Local errors are reflecting to error which will not damage
communication, such as lexical errors, noun errors, and adverbs,
etc do not usually cause major problems.

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E,g, : A trousers.
Trousers are consider to be plural so the indefinite article ‘a’ is not
needed.
Ellis (1997) maintains that ‘classifying errors can help us to
diagnose learner’s learning problem at any stage of their
development and to plot how changes in error patterns occurs over
time’. This categorization can be exemplified as follows :
a. omission
i. Morphological omission : a strange thing happen to me
yesterday.
ii. Syntactical omission : must also sat the names ?
b. addition
i. in morphology : the books is here
ii. in syntax : the London
iii. in lexicon : I stayed during there during five years ago
c. selection
i. in morphology : my friend is oldest than me
ii. in syntax : I want that he comes here
f. ordering
i. in pronounciation : fignisicant for ‘significant; plural for
‘plural’.
ii. in morphological : get upping for ‘getting up’.

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iii. in syntax : he is a dear to me friend.
iv. In lexicon : key car for ‘car key’.
1. Previous studies
State clearly your previous study related to the present study at least 3 studies which is publ
E. Research methodology
1. Research design
The design of this research is qualitative research. About this research, cre
2. `Research procedures
This part dealt with some step by step actions will be conducted during
research especially for collecting the data. This commonly requires us to elaborate
explicity and technically. Asking for permission to teacher will be one of he
research procedure steps if you collect the researcher data from class at junior
high school 3 Ciamis.
3. Research site
The research will be taken junior high school 2 Ciamis which located in
Jl/ K.H. ahmad dahlan no.2, Ciamis, west java 46215. The participants are
students of junior high school 3 Ciamis.
4. Data collection
a. Interview

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The researcher interviews on teacher and students on Tierney
and dilley (2001), interviewing students is of great significance
as it would include them and their views in the learning
process.
b. Documents
Analysis of documents, namely data collection techniques by
studying the document such as attendace list of the students,
syllabus and field note. From the documents examined get the
data can support this research. Braverly, (2009, p.19)
documentation a wide range of written materials can produce
qualitative information. These can be particularly useful in
trying to understand the philosophy of an organization as may
be required in etnography.
5. Data analysis
After getting the document. They are analyzed through process below :
1. Data collection

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An activity to gather photo in the field of
sources data that has been chosen with a
specific data collection technique.
2. Data reduction
It means as the electoral process, focusing
no simplication, abstraction and
transformation of raw data emerging from
pictures in at junior high school 3 Ciamis.
3. They are collection of information being on
their conclusion and taking action.
4. Conclusion and verification
Verification is an activity to reinforce the
conclusions that have been taken. The
interactive model scheme by milles and
hubberman in H.B. Sutopo, (2002. P.96).
6. Ethical considerations
Participants were assured that the information obtained would be used
solely for the purpose of the research. They were also assured of high
confidentially to the information they provided. An aspect of confidentially in
research raises confidence in the participants and increases their level of

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participation (Lay, 1976). The researcher will interview for participants to
talk about the difficulties in their study.

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Research Timeline (you may format it to landscape orientation)
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No Activities
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
1 Proposal
Writing
2 Proposal
Report
3 Instrument
Developmen

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4 Getting
access to
campus
5 Data
Collection
6 Data
Analysis
7 Writing
Report
(Draft)
8 Revision

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9 Final
Drafting
10 Report A
paper
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F. Bibliography
Journal Article
Tafazoli, dara & niloofar, golshan (2014) Review of computer-assisted
language learning: History, merits & barriers
30
Ilmiah, (2016) an analysis of grammatical error in writing recount text.

Putri, sampurna & (2014) an analysis of grammatical error in witing
narrative texts done by the second semester students at the diploma
program english department in airlangga university surabaya
Puspita, Katarina (2015), the use of demonstrative pronoun and
demonstrative determiner this in upper-level student writing : a case study
Wolter, lynsey (2009), demonstrative in philosophy and linguistic.
Book
Sutopo,HB. 2002. Metodologi penelitian kualitatif, dasar-dasar teori dan
terapanya dalam penelitian. Surakarta : UNS Press.
Baverley Hancock, elizabeth ocklefor & kate windrige. 2009. An
45 introduction

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Book
Ellis, R. (2003). Task-based Language Learning and Teaching. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Chapter in Book
Dodd, S. (1989). Lexicomputing and the Dictionary of the Future. In G.
James, (Ed.). Lexicographers and Their Works(pp. 83-93). Exeter:
University of Exeter Press.
Internet Source
Faizah Abdul Majid, Zalizan Jelas & Norzaini Azman. (2002). Selected
60 Malaysian Adult Learners’ Academic Reading Strategies: A Case
Study. Retrieved August 16, 2005 from
http://face.stir.ac.uk/Majidp61.htm
Conference Paper / Proceedings

Wang, Y. & Le, T. (2011). Teaching, learning and management: A case
study of intercultural communication and education. AARE 2006
Conference Proceedings, 27-30November, Adelaide EJ ISSN 1324-
9339 (2007).
Thesis
Nambiar, R. (2005). Language learning and language use strategies of
tertiary learners for academic literary: Towards a theoretical and
pedagogical model of learning. Unpublished Ph.D thesis, Universiti
Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia.
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G. Appendices
Appendix 1
The summary of reading list used in proposal
Appendix 2
The Instruments used in the research

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Submitted to the English Education Program

ENGLISH EDUCATION PROGRAM

Template of Qualitative Research

The tittle of the study will be an analysis of students’ error in using

possessive adjective in their online writing task.

1. Background of the study

Lately, students in junior high school are demanded to master reading,

language, ‘both in mother tongue and in foreign language. Writing is a way to

in sentences. This language skill is used to communicate from one to another by

writing. According to Pope, ‘writing can be briefly defined as the activity of

computer screen, etc.); also what results (i.e. a

piece of writing)’ (1998:255)

Levy (1997) defined computer-assisted language learning (CALL) as “the

involved communication such as conversations, written tasks, critical thingking,

and written tasks in materials from possesive adjectives.

they can be considered possessive pronouns.

The researcher choose topic that entitled “an analysis of students’error in

using possessive adjective in their online writing task”.

a. What kinds of possessive adjective errors are mostly errors

made by students in their online writing task ?

b. What causes possessive adjective errors are mostly errors

made by students in their online writing task ?

3. Purpose of the study

a. To know kinds of possessive adjective are mostly errors made

by students in their online writing task.

b. To know causes possessive adjective errors are mostly errors

made by students in their online writing task.

The result of the study will be great contribution to give

broader information and knowledge to the readers. The present study

is expected to give several aspects : 1) theoretically, 2) practically, and

Theoretically, the findings of the presents study are hoped to give

addition of information about students’ error in using possessive

adjective in their online writing tasks.

educational field, the researcher is expected to be able to know

students error in using possessive adjective in their online writing

Pedagogically, the result of this study also give the significance

students understand themselves and make easier for them to writing

5. Scope of the study

discussion on analysis on students’ grammatical error in their writing

assignment. This study will conduct in junior high school ciamis.

Template of Qualitative Research

To avoid misunderstanding, the writer/researcher considers it is necessary

as davis and pearse (2002, p,13) ) state that ‘errors .

according to celce-murcia, (2001, p.4) ‘ writing is the ability to

express one’s idea in writing in a second or foreign language and to do

so with reasonable coherence and accuracy is a major achievement.

C. computer-assisted language learning (CALL)

Levy 1997 defined computer-assisted language learning (CALL) as

“the search for and study of applications of the compiter in language

teaching and learning.

7. Research report organization

The research report be written in paper organization as follows :

Chapter 1 is introduction. It consists the background of the study, research

of key terms and research report organization.

Template of Qualitative Research

the definition of grammar, definition of computer assisted language teaching and

Chapter 3 is methodology. It consist design, research procedure, research site, data

collection, data collection, data analysis, ethical consideration, research timeline,

bibliography and appendices.

Chapter 4 is result and discussion. It consist of result and findings.

Chapter 5 is conclusions and suggestions. It consists of conclusions and