Abstract:
This study was set to reveal students’ errors in speaking. The errors were limited to
surface strategy taxonomy errors with the focus of morphological and syntactical errors. The study
was carried out under a mixed-method design where both quantitative and qualitative data were
both needed. 33 students of ELESP Lambung Mangkurat University participated in this study. The
participants were asked to orally create a story based on sequence pictures given to them. The
recordings of students’ stories were then transcribed and analyzed. The results of the study
suggested that 249 errors from different categories occurred in students’ stories. The most
prominent errors were found in Omission and Misinformation categories. The errors suggested
students’ lack of understanding related to English grammatical rules. However, despite the errors,
students’ stories were still easy to comprehend.
Keywords: errors; speaking; surface strategy taxonomy; morphology; syntax
