scholarly journals The Analysis of Grammatical Errors in University Students’ Essays

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dewa Putu Ramendra
Keyword(s):  
English Education ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Writing Courses ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
Grammatical Errors ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Verb Tense

This study aims to identify and analyze grammatical errors in student essays. In this case, every student's grammatical error consisting of errors in the use of diction, syntactic structure and meaning were identified and described in detail within the framework of the correct grammatical rules. This research was conducted using a qualitative descriptive method because the data collected was in the form of language use, especially grammatical errors. The subject of this research is English Education Study Program students who joined essay writing courses. Meanwhile, the object of research was grammatical errors in student essays. The data were collected through the collection of student essays obtained from the end-of-semester test and interview guide. The percentage of grammatical errors made by students in their essays in sequence were as follows; fragments: 280 (17.5%), runs on: 235 (14.7%), verb forms and verb tense: 225 (14.1%), passive: 220 (13.8%), linking verb deletion: 160 (10 %), plural disagreement: 120 (7.5%), unclear reference: 115 (7.2%), proposition misuse 89: (5.6%), subject-verb disagreement: 80 (5%), and parallelism: 74 (4.6%). Grammatical errors that needed to be considered more seriously were parallelism and passivity, which, although they look low in percentage terms, for they were rarely used in student essays; but when both forms were present, the grammatical construction tended to be wrong. In addition, both forms were also difficult to understand, compared to other types of errors that could be learned quickly. 

scholarly journals EFL College Students’ Skill in Using Collocations in Writing Essays

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Dewi Nopita
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
English Education ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Writing Course ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Efl College Students ◽  
Academic Year

Collocation is a natural order of words in which one word should be attached to another in a particular context. For students who learn English as a foreign language (EFL students), using collocations has been recognized to become a problem. This article is going to describe EFL college students’ skill in using collocations in writing essays. 42 students from the same class were selected. They were the 4th semester students of English Education Study Program at Teacher Training and Education Faculty of UMRAH who took Essay Writing course in the academic year 2019/ 2020. The students were given a take-home assignment to write essays. Then, the essays were analyzed to find out the students’ skill in using collocations. It was found that in using collocation in writing essays, 5 students had excellent skill, 14 students had good skill, and 23 students had low skill. The incorrect use of collocations consisted of lexical and grammatical collocations. Finally, it is hoped that these findings could be a useful input for future Essay Writing course.

scholarly journals SURFACE STRATEGY TAXONOMY: GRAMMATICAL ERRORS ANALYSIS IN THE THIRD-SEMESTER STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-48
Author(s):  
Annafi’in Nur Rixha ◽  
Idrus Alhamid ◽  
Siti Rokhmah ◽  
Syamsir Bin Ukka
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
English Education ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Grammatical Errors ◽  
Grammatical Error ◽  
Present Tense ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Auxiliary Verb ◽  
Errors Analysis

English and Indonesian are grammatically different. The difference proves that the rules and the application of grammar are the difficult problems in writing English. Based on previous preliminary research, many Third-Semester students of English Education Study Program had problems using grammar. This is supported by the results of unstructured interviews by researcher against students. Then students made mistakes they cannot correct called errors. As English Education students, they must have good competence in all language skills to become a good English teacher. In the future, students will teach writing effectively if they master the grammatical understanding.This research’s objectives were to find: (1) The the types of grammatical errors based on surface strategy taxonomy found in students’ descriptive essay,(2) The dominant grammatical error based on surface strategy taxonomy found in students’ descriptive essay,(3) The factors causing students made grammatical error in writing descriptive essays.To achieve the objectives, a qualitative method is used. Data collected by observation, interview and documentation from students’ descriptive essay worksheet then analyzed using error analysis.The findings of the research: (1) Grammatical errors are Misformation (3rd Person Singular, Plural, Auxiliary Verb, Dictionaries, Preposition, Conjunction, Pronoun, Singular, Simple Present Tense, Simple Past Tense), Omission (Simple Present Tense, Agreement, Auxiliary Verb, Plural, Article, Pronoun, Conjunction, Preposition, Adverb), Addition (Simple Additions, Double Marking), Misordering (Adjective, Pronoun, Auxiliary Verb). (2) The dominant grammatical error is Misformation with 47.05% from 170 errors. (3) The factors causing error are Interlingual and Intralingual.

scholarly journals Need Analysis in ADDIE Model to Develop Academic Speaking Materials

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 438-446
Author(s):  
Dian Misesani ◽  
Wendelinus Oscar Janggo ◽  
Maria Siti Nirmala Wuwur
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
English Education ◽  
English For Academic Purposes ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Materials Development ◽  
Need Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Addie Model

Need analysis has become part of ADDIE model in developing materials for language learning. This research aims at examining the importance of need analysis as the initial focal step prior to the development of materials for Speaking for Academic Purpose. It is also investigating the reliability of ADDIE model prior to developing teaching material, specifically the ‘analyze’ stage. This research is typically a qualitative descriptive approach which conducted by using survey method. The instruments are students questionnaires and experts questionnaires created in online google form. There are totally 68 higher education students consist of thirty-three (33) seventh semester students and thirty-five (35) of fifth semester students taking the role as the respondents. The experts questionnaires are distributed to six lecturers who have the same interest in materials development and teach English for academic Purposes. The most result showed that 40 and 21 respondents consider ‘very important’ and ‘important’ which shows that 90% of all respondents has similar opinion on the importance of textbook for the course of Speaking for Academic Purpose availability. All of the expert-respondents  consider that it is important to develop materials for the course of Speaking for Academic purpose, shown by the dominant answers of ‘yes’Thus, by implementing ADDIE model, the researchers are convinced to develop materials for Speaking for Academic Purpose for students of English Education Study Program in Nusa Nipa University.

scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN SPEECH AT THE STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM OF MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF METRO ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Septian Dwi Sondiana ◽  
Sudirman -
Keyword(s):  
English Education ◽  
Grammar Rule ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Verb Agreement ◽  
Grammatical Errors ◽  
Education Study ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
English Students ◽  
Academic Year

The objectives of the research are to find out the types of grammatical errors in English students’ speech; to find out the percentage of grammatical errors in English students’ speech; to find out the factors influencing English students’ grammatical errors in their speech. Based on the data, the students have problem in producing verb group, errors in subject-verb agreement, errors in the use of articles, errors in the use of prepositions, errors in noun pluralization, errors in the use of pronouns, and errors in the use of conjunctions. It shows that Anisa made eleven sentences in 2 minutes 28 seconds. She made eight errors. Dewi made seven sentences in 1 minutes 57 seconds. She made five errors. Fatika made sixteen sentences in 4 minutes 14 seconds. She made eight errors. Fitri made sixteen sentences in 4 minutes 23 seconds. She made seven errors. Ibnu  made  ten sentences in 2 minutes 18 seconds. He made eight errors. Linda made fiveteen sentences in 3 minutes 7 seconds. She made eight errors. Musli made fourteen sentences in 2 minutes 39 seconds. She made six errors. Nyoman made twelve sentences in 3 minutes 43 seconds. He made nine errors. Pera made ten sentences in 2 minutes 23 seconds. She made seven errors. Sri made fourteen sentences in 6 minutes 34 seconds. She made eleven errors. And about the percentages of errors, here is the data; Anisa: 72,73% of errors; Dewi: 71,4% of errors; Fatika: 50% of errors; Fitri: 43,75% of errors; Ibnu: 80% of errors; Linda: 53,3% of errors; Musli: 42,8% of errors; Nyoman: 75% of errors; Pera: 70% of errors; Sri: 78,57% of errors. Based on interview, it shows it can be concluded the factors influence of English students’ grammatical errors in their speech when their speak using grammar rule. The internal factors are; The first, the students are still difficult to make feeling, for example; confident, feel scary, when they are speaking in public. The second, the students are not mastered in their skills. The third, the students are not have many vocabulay, so they can not express their idea to speak. The forth, the students are still think that grammar are not important to speak. For the external factors are; the first, the student  can not express their speaking because of their environment or comunity. The second, the teaching-learning process.

PENERAPAN PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING DENGAN SIKLUS LESSON STUDY UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MENULIS ESAI ARGUMENTATIF

JURNAL SPHOTA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Anak Agung Putri Maharani
Keyword(s):  
Lesson Study ◽  
English Education ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Research Questions

  ABSTRACT The skill to write argumentative essas as a necessity in the 21st century is crucial for students to hone their critical thinking skills. Having been designed as a classroom action research, the researcher applied Problem-Based Learning with Lesson Study cycle that answered the following two research questions: (a) Can students' argumentative essay writing skill be improved by applying Problem-Based Learning with Lesson Study cycle? And (b) How was the student's response to their implementation? The research subjects consisted of 36 students of IVA semester in English Education Study Program, Faculty of TeacherTraining and Education, Mahasaraswati Denpasar University. To collect data, test and questionnair were administered as research instruments. Data were analyzed descriptively quantitative and qualitative (interactive model). It was found that the application of Problem-Based Learning and Lesson Study was able to improve students' argumentative essay writing skill and the students gave positive response towards their application for the improvement of learning. Key words: argumentative essay, Lesson Study, Problem-Based Learning.  

scholarly journals Helping Students to Write Better through Reading and Writing Connections Strategy

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Erlina ◽  
Rita Hayati ◽  
Hariswan Putra Jaya
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Method ◽  
English Education ◽  
Writing Achievement ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Or Organization

One of the causes of students’ difficulties in writing is related to the lack of knowledge on how to write. This might be caused by the lack of awareness that a piece of writing might have its own pattern or organization of ideas depending on the topic. Therefore, students need to be exposed with different kinds readings materials in order to develop their awareness on how writing is developed into differrent kinds of patterns of ideas. This study is intended to help students improve their writing achievement especially in writing an essay by integrating the reading and writing activitivities. The students involved in an integrated reading and writing activity in order to help the students develop their writing skills. This study involved 16 students of English Education Study Program who took the writing 3 course. Therefore, convinient sampling method is applied. The results of this study showed that there was an improvement in the students’ writing achievement in means from 63.3 in pretest to 79.8 in the post test. The results of the paired-sample t-test also confirmed that there is a significant difference in students’ essay writing achievement before and after they were taught by using reading and writing connections strategy. Organization of ideas, focus and detail, and voice are the aspects which were mostly developed after the treatment. Therefore, it can be concluded that reading and writing connections strategy is effective in improving students’ essay writing achievement.

scholarly journals THE IMPLEMENTATION OF WRITE, SHARE, AND REVISE TECHNIQUE TO EMPOWER STUDENTS’ CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND INTEREST IN WRITING ENGLISH

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Ratih Inayah
Keyword(s):  
Character Development ◽  
English Education ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Education Study ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Regular Students

This study aims to: (1) examine the influence of Write, Share, and Revise technique in recognizing students‟ interest in writing English; and (2) analyze students' character development in writing skills after applying Write, Share, and Revise. It is a qualitative descriptive research where the primary data analyzed is the development of students‟ writing interest and skill during the time of implementation of Write, Share, and Revise Technique. In addition, as secondary data, the analysis of interviews, and classroom observations were tabulated as supporting primary data. Participants selected by using Purposive Participant technique. A total of 60 regular students of the 2017 English Education Study Program at IKIP Siliwangi were involved. The results of the study showed an increase in students‟ interest in writing English and also help them to develop their own writing skill form before the implementation, during, and after the implementation of Write, Share, and Revise technique. Based on interview and observation, it also reveals that students‟ are still struggle with writing materials. This implies that the students still needed extra care from teachers. Thus, it can be concluded that Write, Share, and Revise technique affects the process of writing as an individual and group. By doing Write, Share, and Revise, students tend to be opening minded and lessen selfish feeling and ego by helping each other to make a better writing form.

scholarly journals THE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION TOWARD USING MOBILE TECHNOLOGY FOR LEARNING ENGLISH

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-82
Author(s):  
Novarita Novarita
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Technology ◽  
English Education ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Frequency Distributions ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Learning English

The aim of this study is to find out the students’ perception toward using mobile technology for learning at Baturaja University. This study used the qualitative descriptive research design. The writer conducts 78 students as population of English Education Study Program. The writer only took 65 students as the sample by applying purposive sampling. The data was collected through the students’ perception questionnaire. Then the writer used descriptive statistics analysis technique using SPSS for analyzing the data based on percentage and frequency distributions. The results showed that overwhelming number of university had perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use toward the use of mobile technology for learning English. Majority of university students agreed that mobile technology was useful and easy to use for learning English. The findings indicated that students had high agreement interpretation on the using of mobile technology in perceived usefulness and ease of use to access mobile technology for learning English

scholarly journals Developing Cooperative Learning Based E-Module to Teach Basic English Grammar of the First Semester of English Study Program Students at FKIP – UIR

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Arimuliani Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Learning Outcome ◽  
Word Choice ◽  
Study Program ◽  
First Semester ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
Grammatical Errors ◽  
Basic English ◽  
Verb Tense ◽  
Finite Verb

Achieving learning outcome requires a set of the material that can be understood easily by the students. The material should be appropriate in the learning process. It should give the opportunity for the students to learn both in the classroom and out of the classroom. The students can learn independently by using the appropriate material. However, the material of Basic English Grammar is still quite enough to give a chance for the students to practice and learn cooperatively. This research is aimed obtain e-module of Basic English Grammar, so that it can be used as a source of learning for first semester students of English Study Program of FKIP-UIR. The research method used in this study is R & D (Research and development) of Borg and Gall. The participant of this research is 30 students from first semester who learn Basic English Grammar. In this research, the researcher tried to find out students’ need because it is the first step to do in this research design. So, the data was obtained by writing test.The findings suggest that the participants made 386 errors in writing their paragraph. There are 45 errors (11.66%) of the agreement of singular and plural, 106 errors (27.46%) of the using of verb tense, 51 errors (13.21%) of the finite verb, 25 errors (2.48%) of the non-finite verb, 28 errors (7.25%) of the pronoun, 20 errors (5.18%) in using the preposition, 9 errors (2.33%) of the context of usage, 55 errors (14.25%) of the context of meaning, 22 errors (5.70%) of the word choice and 25 errors (6.48%) of word order. To sum up, the most frequent grammatical errors made by the students are errors in writing verb tense. Based on this finding, the researcher will design e-module of Basic English Grammar.

scholarly journals Error Analysis on Grammatical Aspects in The Students Writing Essay (Case Study At The Fourth Semester Students Of English Education Programme Of STKIP Taman Siswa Bima.

Tamaddun ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Sholihin Sholihin ◽  
Abd Haris
Keyword(s):  
Error Analysis ◽  
English Education ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Passive Voice ◽  
Grammatical Errors ◽  
Cause Of Error ◽  
Verb Tense

The purpose of this study was to describe what kinds of error do the students in their writing essay and to describe the reasons why the students make the error in their writing essay at the four semester students of English education Programe of STKIP Taman Siswa Bima. This study applied case study method. The method unsuited to the error analysis procedures (following Chen, 2006:6) informed the processes to analyze the data consisted four steps were Data collection , Identification of errors, Classification of errors into error types, A statement of error frequency, Find out the case of error. The result of this research was concluded that the grammatical errors made by the fourth semester students of STKIP Taman Siswa Bima in writing essay are in Punctuation and Spelling for the highest errors 50.1%, the second is errors in Sentence Pattern 16%, followed by Auxiliaries  6,1%, Preposition 5.26%, Passive voice 4.48%, Verb Tense and Form 4.2%,  Subject-verb agreement 4.0%, Articles 4%, Plurality 3.8%, Word order 2.3% and Pronoun 1,1% of 521 errors obtained from their essays. The cause of error based on interview was succession approximation system.

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