Types of grammatical errors in the essays witten by fourth-semester students of English Department, Petra Christian University
| Main Author: | PRAYOGO EDWARD L |
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Universitas Kristen Petra
, 2013
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http://dewey.petra.ac.id/catalog/ft_detail.php?knokat=28743 |
Daftar Isi:
- This study deals with error analysis on students’ essays. This study focused on grammatical errors which include tenses (verb forms), number agreement, and active-passive voice, word order, and word formation. Those categories are chosen since the writer who had become a writing assistant for writing classes noticed that the students tent to have problems with the categories compared to the other grammatical problems such as punctuation. In addition, grammatical errors refer to any violation to Standard English Grammar (Dulay, Burt, & Krashen, 1982). The purpose of this study is to find out the types of errors committed by the students in Written English 4 class. There are five error categories employed in this research which are addition, omission, misformation, misordering (Dulay, Burt, & Krashen, 1982), and blends (James, 1998). Furthermore, the writer took 12 essays as the source of data, and listed all errors found in those essays. The writer found that the most frequent error is misformation, especially the misformation of verbs and nouns. In conclusion, both teachers and students should improve their teaching and learning process.