Repetitive errors on student’s revised writing of English teacher education Department of UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya

EFL students may face many challanges in applying the rules of grammar in writing such as making errors on their writing and they are not aware how to write well using good grammars and build coherence. This makes them repeat the same error in their revised writing even though they have received feedback from the teacher. This qualitative research is investigates the repeated errors made by the students in their revised writing after being given feedback by the teacher and to explore causes of the students repeated errors in their revised writing.The participants were 12 students in Written English class consist of in English Teacher Education Department of UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya. The data were collected using document checklist and interview guideline, and analyzed the data using content analysis. The result shows that, 7 from 12 students repeat errors in 6 of 16 aspects of grammatical rules including verb, pronoun, number, prepositions, determiners, and conjuction. Data from interview indicate that repetitive errors are caused by student lack of knowledge on student’s background towards the rules of the target language, they do not make any developments and student missunderstanding towards the teacher’s feedback. Hence, appropiate feedback seems to be more advisable to improve Indonesian EFL learner writing.