THE IMPACTS OF GRAMMATICAL COMPETENCE TOWARDS STUDENTS’ SPEAKING PROFICIENCY IN LEARNING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

This investigation is conducted standing on the gap that there are students of English who are good in speaking the target language but do not master the grammar well, and there are also found students who have adequate grammatical awareness but cannot express themselves orally. This study aims at identifying common grammatical errors occur while students are speaking and how students’ grammar ability influences their speaking performance. This study was conducted in a Basic Speaking Class of First Year English Department Students of UIN Ar-Raniry. The Students’ grammatical mastery was tested as well as examining their speaking proficiency in order to discover the impact that the grammar has over the speaking. Two teachers of speaking were also interviewed in order to verify a number of supportive information. The result of the study showed that “subject-verb agreement” (SVA) was the most frequent grammatical error occurred in students’ speaking practice. It was also admitted that grammatical issue has not a big deal in determining students’ ability to speak English.

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KESALAHAN GRAMATIKAL PADA TEKS TERJEMAHAN ABSTRAK (INDONESIA-INGGRIS) MAHASISWA UNIVERSITAS SEMARANG (USM)

Jurnal Dinamika Sosial Budaya ◽

10.26623/jdsb.v22i1.2111 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 54

Author(s):

Stefani Dewi Rosaria

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Target Language ◽

Sentence Structure ◽

Verb Agreement ◽

The Third ◽

Grammatical Errors ◽

Grammatical Error ◽

The Subject ◽

Descriptive Qualitative

AbstrakPenelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif yang bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan jenis kesalahan gramatikal yang terdapat pada teks terjemahan (Indonesia-Inggris) para mahasiswa Universitas Semarang. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa dari 366 kalimat yang diteliti terdapat 547 kesalahan gramatikal pada teks abstrak para mahasiswa. Kesalahan terbanyak adalah pada penghilangan kata sandang atau article yaitu sebanyak 189 kesalahan. Ketidaksesuaian antara subjek dan kata kerja menjadi jenis kesalahan kedua yang sering terjadi dan pembentukan kalimat yang tidak lengkap menjadi jenis kesalahan terbanyak ketiga. Berdasarkan temuan tersebut dapat disimpulkan bahwa pemahaman para mahasiswa dalam menerjemahkan teks masih kurang karena mengabaikan struktur kalimat bahasa sasaran yang baik dan benar.Kata Kunci: kesalahan gramatikal; abstrak; terjemahan AbstractThis is a descriptive qualitative research which aims to describe a grammatical error in translated abstract texts (Indonesia-English) written by students of Semarang University. The result showed that there were 366 sentences containing 547 grammatical errors made by the students. The most grammatical errors made by the students are the omission of the article with 189 errors. Following the omission of the article was the subject and verb agreement and the third most errors occurred was the sentence fragment. It can be concluded that the students’ understanding in translating the text is lack and they are ignoring the sentence structure of the target language.Keywords: grammatical errors; abstract; translation

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THE IMPACT OF GRAMMATICAL COMPETENCE WITH DISCOURSE IN SPEAKING PROFICIENCY

JURNAL BASIS ◽

10.33884/basisupb.v1i2.295 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 115

Author(s):

Frangky Silitonga ◽

Frangky Silitonga

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

English Language ◽

Past Tense ◽

Grammatical Competence ◽

The Past ◽

Speaking Proficiency ◽

The People ◽

Speaking Skill ◽

Present Tense ◽

The Impact

ABSTRACTLanguage is a mean of communication used in daily activities. There are aspects needed to be concerned in the use of language, especially foreign language. One of the most common foreig language used is English. In Indonesia, although, English is sound familiar by most of people, the ability of using English is still not maximal. In the use of English language, one of the most important aspects is grammar, for example grammar orientation—tenses, Simple past tense and simple present tense, these are two particular parts in grammar. Simple past tense indicates the past condition that has passed. Simple present tense is used to describe the habit or event happening now. The tendency of tenses use is usual in daily communication, for instance, everyone will interact through some ways, one of them verbal communication or speaking. There is a relationship between grammar and speaking proficiency. Simple past and simple present tense influence the speaking proficiency, thus by mastering those grammar aspects will make easier to understand communication each other. Therefore discourse has supporting power to make the second learners language easily to improve speaking skill. It thing become a basic need for some people who face the people using that foreign language, especially in the school or business process. In Batam, as an industrial region which next to the Singapore and Malaysia, a well speaking proficiency surely needed. Here, the writer conducts the research toward impact of grammatical orientation with discourse in speaking proficiency on students’ primary school in Batam.

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The Impact of Native Language Use on Second Language Vocabulary Learning by Saudi EFL Students

English Language Teaching ◽

10.5539/elt.v9n5p134 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (5) ◽

pp. 134 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Muhammad Saleem Khan

Keyword(s):

Community College ◽

Second Language ◽

Foreign Language ◽

Secondary Students ◽

English Language ◽

Language Use ◽

Native Language ◽

Vocabulary Learning ◽

Target Language ◽

The Impact

This paper strives to explore the impact of Native Language use on Foreign Language vocabulary learning on the basis of empirical and available data. The study is carried out with special reference to the English Language Programme students in Buraydah Community College, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia. The Native Language of these students is Arabic and their Second Language is English. The participants in this research study are the post-secondary students of Buraydah Community College in Intensive Course Programme. The instrument used in this study was in the form of two tests. It is well known that in language assessment tests play a pivotal role in evaluating the EFL learners’ language proficiency. The use of native language as a semantic tool for assessing second language learners’ understanding shouldn’t be rejected altogether especially for the undergrad Saudi EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students. The outcomes of the study show that in learning the vocabulary of target language is significantly helped by the use of translation method of native language (Arabic) in understanding the meaning of novel words and expressions of foreign language (English). This method is widely welcomed by majority of the students of Buraydah Community College. It’s recommended to use this method in order to take the students directly to the core meaning of the word or expression. It also, sometimes, gives a sense of accuracy of the meaning of native language equivalents.

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The Impact of a Cultural Research Course Project on Foreign Language Students’ Intercultural Competence and Language Learning

Journal of Language Teaching and Research ◽

10.17507/jltr.0801.12 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 97 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Fang Li ◽

Yingqin Liu

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Language Learning ◽

Mandarin Chinese ◽

Intercultural Competence ◽

Learning Experience ◽

Target Language ◽

Cultural Research ◽

Language Students ◽

The Impact ◽

Foreign Language Students

This study explores whether using a cultural research course project can positively impact foreign language students’ intercultural competence and language learning. Using a case study method, the researchers recruited 12 student participants from an Intermediate Mandarin Chinese I class and from an Introduction to Mandarin Chinese I class in the Fall 2014 semester at a small public southwest university in USA. The project asked the participants to do a PowerPoint oral presentation on special topics from the target language culture and then to write a reflective cultural comparison English essay on this learning experience during the final exam. The findings show that, through doing the project, the students have improved their intercultural competence in that they have a more positive attitude towards “otherness,” enriched their cultural knowledge of the target language society and that of their own, and obtained skills in critically appreciating and evaluating both similarities and differences between the target language culture and their own. The students also expanded their language learning experience beyond the classroom and textbook and acquired better language skills in listening, speaking, and writing Chinese characters while they became more interested in and motivated by learning the target language and culture. Recommendations for future study are discussed.

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An Analysis of Omission in Students’ English Writings

TEKNOSASTIK ◽

10.33365/ts.v16i2.141 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 55

Author(s):

Ingatan Gulö ◽

Teo Vany Rahmawelly

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Language Learners ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Qualitative Data ◽

Verb Agreement ◽

Foreign Language Learners ◽

Grammatical Errors ◽

Omission Errors ◽

Qualitative Data Collection ◽

Made In

This paper is part of research with a larger scope covering errors students made related to subject-verb agreement. This part aims to elaborate grammatical problems faced by foreign language learners of English in relation to the omission they made in their writings. A qualitative data collection method was applied in gathering the data. The researchers collected pieces of writing from the students, read them, and analysed the omission errors found in the collected writings. As result, the most common omissions found in the data are related to verb markers. Omission of main verbs and auxiliaries also occur, creating sentences without any verbs or grammatically necessary auxiliaries. Absense of these kinds of function in Indonesian is the main reason for this grammatical problem faced by the learners. In addition, omissios of suffix -ing were also found by the researchers in the data. These findings should be able to contribute to existing works on grammatical errors and increase the success of both teaching and learning of a foreign language like English.Key Words: error, grammar, omission, writing

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Community, Connections and Innovation in Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning

10.46679/978819484836306 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 141-168

Author(s):

Sandra Healy ◽

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

University Students ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Online Courses ◽

Tertiary Education ◽

First Year ◽

Academic English ◽

Community Connections ◽

First Year University ◽

The Impact

The emergence of the Covid-19 virus had an enormous impact on all of our lives and significantly affected the lives of first-year university students in Japan who began their tertiary education during the initial lockdown. This chapter examines the impact the move online had on these students by analysing videos created by them as part of their academic English as a Foreign Language (EFL) coursework. The videos were analysed, and 12 themes emerged which were used as a foundation for new practices focusing on the development of community and connections in online courses, particularly the use of e-mentors.

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The Impact of Learning Environment on EFL Students’ Academic Achievement: A study of Socio-Cultural Factors Affecting Academic Achievement

10.31235/osf.io/crnkq ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Elmakki AMIRI ◽

Abderrahim El KARFA

Keyword(s):

Academic Achievement ◽

Environmental Factors ◽

Learning Environment ◽

Foreign Language ◽

First Year ◽

First Year Students ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Academic Achievements ◽

Efl Students ◽

The Impact

It is worth pointing out that learning a foreign language in a multicultural context is a long and complex undertaking. Several factors influence whether or not English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students can accurately perceive and produce the foreign language. These variables can potentially contribute to the success and, or failure in learning and acquiring a foreign language. Given the Moroccan educational system, the research provided minimal insight into the relationship between those factors and language achievement. The present study’s aim, therefore, was to investigate the environmental factors that affect students’ academic performance. It also aimed to find out how these variables affect students’ academic achievements. To achieve this aim, data have been collected via open-ended questionnaires, and interviews addressed mainly to First Year Students of Master Programs, Department of English, FLDM, USMBA-Fez. The findings have shown that students’ academic achievements were significantly positively/negatively linked with the environmental factors, namely societal, home/family and school/classroom variables. The findings also revealed that the more highly sophisticated the social environment is, the more likely it is to foster EFL students’ academic achievements. In addition, the more similarity exists between the students’ cultures, the more successful the learning is. This study also showed that the development of EFL proficiency is a product of contextual factors influence. As such, the study concludes with several implications that brought up for possible effective change in the future to enhance the learning environment atmosphere, boost students’ academic achievements, and, therefore, achieve better results.

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The Impact Of Individual Differences On Foreign Language The Case Of First Year LMD Students Of English At Batna 2 University

10.35813/1712-000-008-028 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 30

Author(s):

Khadidja-Samira Zitouni ◽

Mohamed-Salah Nedjai

Keyword(s):

Individual Differences ◽

Foreign Language ◽

First Year ◽

The Impact

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Effects of Reading-Listening Integrated Dictation on Chinese EFL Students’ Listening Performance

Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics ◽

10.1515/cjal-2021-0026 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 44 (3) ◽

pp. 417-429

Author(s):

Haiyan Miao

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Target Language ◽

First Year ◽

College Level ◽

Learning Gains ◽

Text Difficulty ◽

Efl Learners ◽

Efl Students

Abstract This study examines the effects of reading-listening integrated dictation on Chinese college-level English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ listening. Different from previous research that explored reading while listening for listening development, this study combined the two skills in dictation in which listening was a continuation of reading. Participants were two groups of first-year Chinese EFL learners who were exposed to the target language under two conditions: the traditional dictation (i. e., listening-only) and the reading-listening integrated dictation in a counterbalanced order. Three datasets were collected: listening performance, perception questionnaires and follow-up interviews. Results indicated that the reading-listening integrated dictation was superior in terms of learning gains from listening and that their effect was commensurate with dictation text difficulty. The findings also showed that the reading-listening integrated dictation could enhance EFL students’ confidence and interest and make the use of strategies possible during listening.

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SURFACE STRATEGY TAXONOMY ON THE EFL STUDENTS’ COMPOSITION A STUDY OF ERROR ANALYSIS

JURNAL IQRA ◽

10.25217/ji.v1i2.128 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Suhono Suhono

Keyword(s):

Error Analysis ◽

Language Learning ◽

Language Learners ◽

Second Language Learners ◽

Mother Tongue ◽

Target Language ◽

Grammatical Errors ◽

Grammatical Error ◽

Efl Students ◽

The Subject

This study deals with error analysis on composition written by EFL Students IAIM NU Metro. It aims at developing further analyzing of error analysis in second language learners. For this purpose, an empirical study was conducted, using Indonesian students learning English as the subject of research. To achieve this purpose, the researcher explored the type of grammatical errors made by students at different grade semesters: the second, the sixth, and the eighth. More specifically, this study was an attempt to describe the type of grammatical error which frequently exist in written composition, to describe frequency grammatical error among the grade semesters, and to describe the sources of errors. Students’ writings were analyzed based on surface strategy taxonomy theory. The results of this research revealed that 268 sentences indicated errors. In all semesters, types of omission error was the highest one 131 (48.9%) sentences. Furthermore, grammatical error in the second semester was the highest one 124 (46.8%) sentences. The sources of errors of this research were mother-tongue influence (Interlingual errors). It was influenced by the native language which interferes with target language learning. The second was Intralingual errors, caused by the target tself like, misanalysis (wrong hypothesis), incomplete rule application. Keywords: Surface Strategy Taxonomy, Error Analysis, IAIM NU Metro.

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