scholarly journals Grammatical Error Analysis in Essay Writing

DEIKSIS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Rifa Suci Wulandari ◽  
Ratri Harida

<p class="5AbstrakIsi">Students cannot avoid making errors which might enrich learners’ knowledge in using a foreign language. Error as such a systematic deviation which occurs when the student has not learned something of the language and gets it wrong constantly, because he has not learned the correct form. However, there are some factors that cause the errors such as carelessness, first language interference, and translation. When using English in their essays writing, students might make errors in various aspects of grammar, such as tenses, aspects, word classes, word order, inflections, and punctuation. Therefore, the accuracy of using them in the writing of English sentences must be considered, especially by students who are developing writing skills in English as a foreign language. By writing English sentences according to the grammatical structure, the meaning of it will be accurate, easily understood and acceptable. This article aims to identify types of grammatical errors made by the students of English education department at STKIP PGRI Ponorogo in writing essay and find out the factors causing the students’ grammatical errors in writing essay.</p>

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-330
Author(s):  
Orli Binta Tumanggor ◽  
Aprilza Aswani ◽  
Winda Syafitri

Learning a second or foreign language is quite different from acquiring the first language or mother tongue. There are some differences found in different languages including the grammatical pattern. It tends to make the learners have errors in writing or speaking English. This study investigated the students’ analyses toward grammatical error on social media posts. The subject of research are 15 students of Politeknik Negeri Medan majoring computer engineering.There were 20 errors found by students which were further analyzed by using surface taxonomy theory.  This study showed that the students’ analyses were dominantly on misformation analysis, followed by omission, addition, and misordering analysis. Misformation is the highest rate of errors found as it actually covers many grammar topics in english such as tenses, participle, verbal sentence, nominal sentence, part of speech, and others as analyzed by students on social media posts.  Besides, no students found blends analysis, it might due to their lack of knowledge of blends itself. Key word: Grammatical error, social media, surface taxonomy theory


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Siti Sarah Fitriani ◽  
Nira Erdiana ◽  
Iskandar Abdul Samad

Visualisation has been used for decades as a strategy to help readers construct meaning from reading passages. Teachers across the globe have introduced visualisation mostly to primary students with native language background. They used the strategy to understand their own language. Little is known how this strategy works for university students who learn foreign language. Visualisation can be done internally (by creating mental imagery) and externally (by drawing visual representation). The product of visualising texts by using both models can be further investigated to find out if the meaning represented is appropriate to the meaning written in the text. This study therefore aims at exploring meaning by analysing the visual representations drawn by 26 English Education Department students of Syiah Kuala University after they read a narrative text. The exploration was conducted by looking at the image-word relations in the drawings. To do so, we consulted Chan and Unsworth (2011), Chan (2010) and Unsworth and Chan (2009) on the image-language interaction in multimodal text. The results of the analysis have found that the equivalence, additive and interdependent relations are mostly involved in their visual representations; and these relations really help in representing meanings. Meanwhile, the other three relations which are word-specific, picture specific and parallel are rarely used by the students. In addition, most students created the representations in a form of a design which is relevant to represent a narrative text. Further discussion of the relation between image-word relations, types of design and students’ comprehension is also presented in this paper.


Author(s):  
Azizah Maulina Erzad

Listening comprehension becomes one of the most difficult skills for most of English learners especially EFL learners. As a foreign language, English is rarely used in communication by EFL learners in their daily life. Therefore, the learners or students always face some difficulties/problems in listening comprehension. It can be seen from the results of their tests. The purpose of this study is to investigate the problems occur in listening class of EFL students at IAIN Kudus and the solutions to overcome those problems. The EFL students in this study refer to the English Education Department students of IAIN Kudus. The participants of this study are the second semester of English Education Department students. This study is a qualitative research. Observation, interview and documentation were conducted to collect the data. By conducting this study, several problems in listening comprehension can be revealed. The listening problems encountered by the EFL students are the pronunciation (accents), speedy delivery and length of the listening, physical conditions, unfamiliar vocabularies and terminologies, and limited facility for listening. Some actions should be done to overcome these obstacles occurred during listening process. The solutions to overcome the problems are students should be focus, practice more in listening English, memorize vocabularies, and prepare a language laboratory.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-34
Author(s):  
Marzuki Marzuki

This research investigates and analyses pronunciation errors made by the students of English Education Department at IKIP Budi Utomo Malang. Errors in students’ pronunciation are  crucial problems among foreign language teacher, especially English teacher. This research aims at investigating and finally finding out pronunciation errors made by the English students of S-1. The subjects of the study are the S-1 English students in academic period 2019/2020 that total 40 students who took dictation course in the third semester. The data of the study are a group of students’ pronunciation or speech sounds. Based on the description above, there are two important problems proposed in terms of kinds of pronunciation errors and causes of pronunciation errors. Of the data analysis carried out, it is found out that kinds and causes of pronunciation errors which are classified into significant and non-significant errors. There are four causes of pronunciation errors, namely (1) some differences of speech sounds between English and Indonesian; (2) the same phonetic features which have the different distribution between English and Indonesian; (3) interference of native language; and (4) lack of practices and exposures in English pronunciation.


Author(s):  
Annafi’in Nur Rixha ◽  
Idrus Alhamid ◽  
Siti Rokhmah ◽  
Syamsir Bin Ukka

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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
Ribeh Najib Muhammad

The perception of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students toward the significance of distance learning practice in EFL teaching at university is essential to provide suggestions for enhancing distance learning practice in the context of EFL teaching. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate students’ perception towards distance learning practice at University of Muhammadiyah Gresik, especially in Words in Contexts class as the main course for learning vocabularies. Therefore, this study explored several aspects that needed in the implementation of distance learning practice. The subjects of this study were 34 first semester students of English education department who had applied distance learning practice. Questionnaire was used as research instrument to collect data from the respondents who had been selected. In addition, interview was also conducted to confirm the result of questionnaire. After the data were collected, they were analyzed using quantitative and qualitative analysis method. The finding indicated that students had average perception towards the implementation of distance learning practice, since distance learning practice provided advantages for their learning process. However, there were setbacks and problems such as students’ participation, internet connectivity, and material clarity that needed to be solved in order to improve the quality of distance learning practice.


2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Fauzi Miftakh

This study aimed at discovering the students‟ responses to the implementation of intercultural language learning at the sixth semester students of the English Education Department, University of Singaperbangsa Karawang, Indonesia. The focus of the study was on 1) the students‟ general attitudes toward the course, 2) the students‟ attitudes toward the implementation of teaching and learning and 3) the students‟ responsibility as an intercultural person. This study was designed as a descriptive qualitative study that involved 31 participants. The data were collected through questionnaire and interviews. Based on the findings, the students gave positive responses to the implementation of intercultural language learning and they showed a greater interest in participating in the course. The intercultural language learning also proved that the students were given the opportunity to become intercultural speakers either during the teaching and learning process or in their daily life. Finally, it recommends that the intercultural approach should be implemented by other English teachers in any subject and at all levels of students.Keywords: interculural language learning, intercultural competence, English as a foreign language.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Rulik Setiani

This research belongs to research and development (R&D) type. The aim is to develop an essay writing teaching material for the third-semester students of the English Education Department. Essay writing is one of the compulsory subjects for the third-semester students of STKIP Muhammadiyah Kotabumi. Through an essay, students can express their ideas and thoughts. Meanwhile, good writing skills can help them to provide information more clearly to the readers. The method used in the research consists of ten steps, but the researcher limited it to seven. Those are preliminary study, data collecting, teaching material design, teaching material validation, teaching material revision, teaching material testing, and revising the teaching material product. The compiled teaching material consists of seven units. The materials refer to the course outline for the third semester of the English Education Department. The teaching material has been validated by two experts, as well as one expert for the design and one for the media. Three experts stated that the materials are in the very good category. From the trial conducted through an essay-writing test and questionnaire, it can be concluded that the teaching materials are effective to be used as the material for the subject Essay Writing. It is evident in the mean score of the 3A group, which is 74.4. Meanwhile, the questionnaire results show that three aspects of the teaching materials are in the very good category.


Al-Lisan ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-241
Author(s):  
Sujarwo Sujarwo

Machine Translation (MT) refers to automatically trying to translate words, phrases, text, or speech from one language to another (Arnold et al., 1994). This study aims to analyze English as Foreign Language (EFL) students’ perceptions on utilizing machine translation (MT) in translating words, phrases, text, or speech. This research used descriptive qualitative method, 13 EFL students as respondents using this type of technology were described and analyzed. Data were gained from the analysis of the translation quality supported by machine translation procedures and questionnaires to 13 English students in translation subject. The results showed that, EFL students in the sixth and seventh semester of English education department of Megarezky University in translating words, phrases, texts, paragraphs had to recheck and rearrange to get a good translation by their own understandings. Machine Translation (MT) becomes another option to recognize the meaning of foreign language. Machine Translation can be used as dictionary as well. MT is incredibly useful and helpful, it can provide a general description to the users, it gives an inspiration or consideration to the users to understand the meaning.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-178
Author(s):  
Lilik Masykuroh Hadah ◽  
Sayyidatul Maghfiroh ◽  
Naza Zulmia Humaira ◽  
Wahyu Nur Akhada

Purpose - This research aims to figure out the relationship between those two productive skills focusing on four aforementioned crucial aspects in language learning. Design/methodology/approach - This study used a cross-sectional quantitative method with 32 English Education Department students in the 6th semester at Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya who have already been experienced in spoken and written class to be the participants. In terms of gaining the data, It used pictured cued interviews and answer the open-ended question related to the best way in finding a job and give their opinion within 30 minutes. Both of the tests were adapted from the TOEIC sample test from the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Finally, use SPSS 2.2 for the data analysis. Findings - The result shows that the organization gains the highest rate or simply as the most related part among the other language learning. Furthermore, the correlation between the two productive skills also shows a moderate correlation. Originality/value - It simply said that speaking and writing show an insignificant correlation with the organization as the most related part of language learning. Paper type – Research paper


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