An Error Analysis On EFL Student’s Reflective Journal Writing On Online Blogging At Tarbiya And Teachers Training Faculty State Islamic University Of North Sumatera

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The aim of this study was to find out: 1) the kinds of error made by EFL
student’s reflective journal writing on online blogging, 2) the process that the EFL
student did in producing errors, 3) the causes of error happened on EFL student's
reflective journal writing. This study was categorized into a qualitative content
analysis. The data of this study were 10 reflective journal writings of EFL student
on her blogging account and the data source was one of the EFL students of State
Islamic University of North Sumatera. The data were observed by purposive
sampling. Thus for the results of this study, the researcher found five kinds of errors
that appeared on EFL student’s reflective journal writing on her online blogging.
They were; error in time, omission error, insertion error, part of speech error and
other errors. The errors happened unconsciously, the EFL student made errors by
eliminating, adding some unnecessary word and disordering some words in
arranging sentence. There were several factors behind the occurrence of errors,
namely Interlingua transfer, intralingua transfer, lack of vocabulary, and the use of
inappropriate translate techniques

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