Acquisition Sequences by Students in Essay Writing Classes

Abstract

English language skills are divided into two big categories, receptive skills, (i.e., listening and reading) and productive skills, i.e., (speaking and writing). Every language skills is connected. This study explore the acquisition of obligatory grammatical elements, those are verb-ing, plural, articles, and subject-verb agreement. It is an exploratory study, it aims at finding to find whether natural acquisition orders in students writing exist or not. According to data from academic affairs In Essay writing class there are 163 students. This research has sixty-three subjects. The technique that is used is obligatory occasion analysis. The result shows that 97% are able to use Verb-ing. Plural form mastery level is 98%, of accuracy. Article is 96, 2 % for accuracy levels. The last, subject verb agreement 94,1%. It may caused by avoiding or errors. The errors caused by overextension of analogy and or developmental. Those errors caused by language gab. It is supported by Nemser (1971) as quoted in Ellis (1986) there is a gap in language knowledge between L1 and L2, the differences in L1 and L2 in language system, and the differences between learners are too wide.