Rina Hayati. 2016. The Error Analysis of Subject Verb Agreement in Fan Fiction Written by Five Non-native Speakers (Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Singapore). Thesis, English Department. Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Faculty. Advisor : (1) Drs. H. Ahdi Makmur, M.Pd, Ph.D (2) Rahmila Murtiana, SS, MA.
Keywords: Subject Verb Agreement, Fan Fiction, Non-native Speakers
This research describes about The Error Analysis of Subject Verb Agreement in Fan Fiction Written by Five Non-native Speakers (Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Singapore). The problem statement of this research are what the writing errors commonly made by five non-native speakers in using subject verb agreement on writing fan fiction and what are the differences of writing errors between second language writers (Malaysia and Singapore) and foreign language writers (Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia) in using subject verb agreement on writing fan fiction.
Based on the problem statements above, the purposes of this research are to find out the grammatical errors especially subject verb agreement which are made by five fan fiction writers and find out the differences of writing errors between Second Language writers (Malaysia and Singapore) and foreign language writers (Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia) in using subject verb agreement on writing fan fiction.
The subject of this research is 5 fan fictions written by 5 non-native speakers taken from internet sources/Asian Fan Fiction and Strawberry Room blogs. The object of the research is grammatical errors and the differences of writing errors between foreign languages and second language writers on using subject verb agreement that found in the most update fan fictions in Asian Fan Fiction and Strawberry Room
To collect the data, the writer uses some techniques such as reading, listing the data, re-checking the data, and taking evidence/information related to the problem statements. Data processing in this research is divided into five phases: collecting, identifying, confirming, classifying, and analyzing. Then, all the data are analyzed descriptively, qualitatively, and concluded inductively.
The result of this research states that the writing errors commonly made by five non-native speakers in using subject verb agreement on writing fan fiction are in using –s or es and basic subject verb agreement and the differences of writing errors between second language writers (Malaysia and Singapore) and foreign language writers (Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia) in using subject verb agreement on writing fan fiction is second language writers did not make errors in basic subject verb agreement type.