scholarly journals An Analysis of the Grammatical Errors in Narrative Writing Made by Eleventh-grade Students of One Private Islamic Senior High School Palembang, South Sumatera, Indonesia

Ta dib ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-210
Author(s):  
MURDIYANA MURDIYANA

This study was aimed at finding out: (1) the types of grammatical errors in narrative writing made by eleventh-grade students of one private Islamic senior high school Palembang, South Sumatera, Indonesia and (2) the most frequent type of grammatical errors in narrative writing made by eleventh-grade students of private Islamic senior high school Palembang, South Sumatera, Indonesia. This study was a descriptive qualitative research. The data were collected from narrative writing written by the 32 eleventh grade students. In this study, grammatical items analyzed were covering noun, pronoun, verb, conjunction, adjective, adverb and preposition. In analyzing students’ errors, some procedures of error analysis were applied. They were identification, description, and explanation. The frequencies of errors were calculated in percentages. Based on the result of the analysis, there were 621 grammatical errors found in students’ narrative writing. Errors in using verb became the most frequent type of errors with 308 errors (49.59%), followed by errors in pronoun with 136 errors (21.90%), in adjective with 87 errors (14.00%), in preposition with 61 errors (9.82%), in noun with 13 errors (2.09%), in conjunction with 10 errors (1.61%) and the last errors in adverb with 6 errors (0.96%).

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-200
Author(s):  
Yudha Suranta P Siregar ◽  
Natalia Widya Pasca Tarigan ◽  
Cindy Ika Mawarni ◽  
Christine Widyantari Br Simanjuntak ◽  
Alfian Tanjaya

This research aims to classify and analyze students’ types and sources of errors in writing recount text using simple past tense. This research used descriptive qualitative research. Furthermore, researchers used a written test and chose the 2nd grade students of Senior High School and observed 20 students. It was found the students do all the types of errors. Selection errors was the most common types of errors with 94 or 44,98% of errors. The second was the omission errors with 56 or 26,79% of errors. The third was the addition errors with 43 or 20,57% of errors. Then the last was misordering errors with 16 or 07,66% of errors. Furthermore, the errors weren’t caused by Indonesian language’s system but the complexity of English language’s system. Moreover, the lack of students’ understandings of grammar was the cause of the errors. In this research, most of the students didn’t understand present and past form of the verbs. It can be concluded that students had difficulty in writing using properly grammar because the English language’s system. Keywords: error analysis, types of errors, sources of errors.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 302
Author(s):  
Yuni Siregar ◽  
Arsen Nahum Pasaribu ◽  
Erika Sinambela

Since the outbreak of Coronavirus in 2020, teaching and studying activities commonly conducted in the classrooms were shifted to online, which caused students to adapt and accept without compromising. This study analyzed the dialogue texts expressing students' hopes and views about the future of learning amidst the Covid-19 pandemic written by the Senior High School students of Nanyang Zhi Hui school in Medan, Sumatera Utara. The objectives are to analyze the mood, modality, and modality orientation types; and figure out the dominantly-applied mood, modality, and orientation types in the dialogue texts. This descriptive qualitative research applied the Mood and Modality theory by Halliday and other linguists. The study revealed that 1) three mood types: declarative, interrogative, and imperative, four types of modality: probability, usuality, obligation, and inclination range from low, median, and high degrees; four orientations: subjective-explicit, subjective-implicit, objective-explicit, and objective-implicit occurred in the texts; and 2) the clauses are represented through the extensive use of declarative mood (80,74%), median probability (47%), and implicitly objective modality orientation (45,15%). The study concludes that the students tend to give their insights using statements with median probability and orientation of objective-implicit in the dialogue, which shows a lack of confidence in the utterances.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Mir-atul Aufa ◽  
Hermawati Syarif

This study aimed to analyse the errors on pre-service teachers’ classroom language while having field practice in senior high schools. The analysis was conducted by adapting James (1998) Target Modification Taxonomy. Classroom language including the simple instructions and the questions given by pre-service teachers. The participants of this research are five pre-service teachers from four different schools. This study was descriptive qualitative research. The instrumentation of this research were observation, document and interview. The study analyzed pre-service teachers’ classroom language by categorizing the errors into types followed by the causes of each error. Some problems related to pre-service teachers’ classroom language were also found. The problems found hindered the optimal use of classroom language. The findings of the research showed that there were grammatical and lexical errors occured. The grammatical errors were omission (50%), overinclusion (21.73%), misselection (8.70%) and misplacement (4.34%). Some ellipsis (15.21%) were also detected.  


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-130
Author(s):  
Linda Setiorini

This research analyzes the grammatical errors in spoken English of customer services of Malang Tourist Information Center. The objectives of this research are to determine the types of errors and the cause of errors spoken by the customer services. The data were collected from four customer services by recording their conversation between them and the tourists. The study only focuses on the customer service’s utterances. The design of this research is descriptive qualitative research and the instrument is researcher herself. The finding of this research showed that the most dominant error was error of omission with 44 numbers (44%), followed by error of selection with 38 numbers (35%), error of ordering with 14 numbers (12%), and error of addition with 8 numbers (9%). The research also investigated that the causes of errors spoken by customer services were interlingua and intralingua transfer. Interlingua transfer was considered as the major cause of errors of customer services of Malang Tourist Information Center.   Keywords: grammatical errors, error analysis, utterances


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sapta Friyanti Pakpahan ◽  
Indah Dewi Sartika Purba ◽  
Srilasima Pakpahan ◽  
Erikson Saragih

This research was conducted to evaluate the english textbookcontent of 11th grade Senior high school (2017 Revise Edition) Entitled "STOP BULLYING NOW"published by KEMENDIKBUD.This study used descriptive qualitative research approach.The data  source is 11th grade Senior high school english textbook and used the content analysisto evaluate the English textbook based on standard of KEMENDIKBUD.This study gathered the source data by using checklist instruments,which are consists of Textbook content,Presentation,Languange and Graphic Design.The data analysis resulted from the percentage of fullfilment scoreand gain 95% as the Good CategoryEnglish textbookand have been fulfilled the requirements of KEMENDIKBUD for eleventh grade senior high school.ThisEnglishtextbookEntitled"STOPBULLYINGNOW"itisaqualifiedbookbycontaingoodmaterialsbasedonMAGICConcepttheyareMotivating,AuthenticandAppropriate,GraphicandGraded,Interesting,InteractiveandIntegrated,ContextualizedandCreative.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Silva Afdian ◽  
Delvi Wahyuni

This study aimed to investigate senior high school students’ attitude towards advantages of learning literature in English. The participants of this research were 22 eleventh grade students in SMAN 2 Padang who took English as Specialization class. This study was descriptive qualitative research used in investigating senior high school students’ attitude towards literature in English. The instrumentations of this research were questionnaire and interview. The following are advantages of learning literature in English, encouraging language sources, improving language skill, expanding students’ awareness through environment and willingness to learn English language. The findings of the research showed that students’ attitude towards advantages of learning literature in English is positive.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Fetriani Fetriani ◽  
Indah Hayati

The objective of this research is to find out character values found in English textbook for grade ten and for grade eleven of Senior High School. The research was descriptive qualitative research which dealt with non-numerical data and focused on the character values found in English textbook of senior high school. The result of this research presented the character values found in English textbook for grade ten and for grade eleven of Senior High School. They are religiousness, honesty, tolerance, discipline, perseverance, creativity, independence, democracy, curiosity, nationalism, patriotism, appreciation, friendliness /communication, peacefulness, literacy, affection to nature, sociable, and responsible. From those 18 characters, appreciation character is the most dominant with the percentage of 12.5 %. Meanwhile, tolerance, discipline, independence, democracy, and literacy characters stand in the lowest position with only 2.5 %.


Author(s):  
Nor Fitriansyah ◽  
Masni Usman ◽  
Surono Surono

This study explores the cultural content represented in the English Textbook used by the deaf students at disable senior high school or SMALB (Tuna Rungu). This book was published by Kemendikbud of Indonesia in 2016. This study was categorized as Descriptive qualitative research. The method used in this study is textbook content analysis. To collect the data, the writers selected the text, pictures and activities presented in each unit of the textbooks. Meanwhile, to analyze the data, the writers adapted two different frameworks. The first framework was used to explore what cultures are represented in the textbook (types of culture). The second framework was used to explore how the cultures were represented in the textbook (sense of culture). There are 157 cultural contents found in the Tunarungu Bahasa Inggris SMALB Grade XI 2016 book. By Type of Culture, the 157 cultural contents were divided into 60 Source Culture, 94 Target Culture and 3 International culture. Meanwhile, in terms of Sense of Culture, the 157 cultural contents were divided into 5 Aesthetic Senses, 3 Sociological Senses, 59 Semantic Senses and 90 Pragmatic Senses. 


Author(s):  
Lindayana ◽  
Arifuddin ◽  
Halus Mandala

This study was conducted aiming at examining: (1) the divergent principles of politeness in students’ directive speech act (2) factors affecting politeness and impoliteness in verbal and non-verbal directive speech act produced by students at grade X in Senior High School 1 Mataram in the learning process. The subject of this study are teachers teaching Bahasa Indonesia, English, Economy, History, Math, Religion, Civic, and Science, and all students at Grade X of Science 1, Science 3 and Social 2 in Senior High School 1 Mataram. This study is a descriptive qualitative research. The data source in this study is the number of utterances produced by students and teachers in the learning process. The data were collected through observation. This study revealed that: (1) there were divergent principles of politeness in participants’ directive speech act namely single and multiple divergent principles of politeness affected by speaker intentionally accused addressees, intentionally uttered by neglecting the context, was protective to other arguments, showed emotional feeling, given critiques in impolite words and mocked at other; and (2) there were factors affecting politeness and impoliteness in verbal and non-verbal directive speech act produced by students in learning process namely linguistic factor and non-linguistic factor.


Jurnal KATA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Silvia Utami

<p><em>Introduction section is the first section of the thesis that has an important role which summarizes background information about the topic. The ability to write a clear and concise introduction section of a thesis is indispensable skill to writers; thus it is essential for students to be aware of linguistic aspects of writing. Past literature in writing studies have shown that although many studies have been written about the grammatical errors and mistakes in writing, there is very little research done on grammatical problems in writing introduction section of thesis. This research was a descriptive qualitative research which aimed to analyze grammatical problems found in the introduction section of thesis written by English literature students at STIBA Persada Bunda Pekanbaru. The source of data in this research was documents taken from students’ thesis. The data were collected by using coding sheets. The findings of this research showed that the most common grammatical problems found in introduction section of thesis was incorrect verbs which dominated by tenses confusion and lack of subject and verb agreement. The possible solutions to overcome students’ grammatical problems were using indirect method in teaching grammar and prioritizing grammar structures to teach.</em></p>


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