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Students’ Grammatical Problems in Writing Simple Paragraphs: Lack of Grammatical Competency or Language Carelessness? Lely Refnita
Proceedings of ISELT FBS Universitas Negeri Padang Vol 2 (2014): Proceedings of 2nd International Seminar on English Language Teaching (ISELT)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Padang

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The real language condition in Indonesia is that most learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) have already had and communicated in their own mother tongues and bahasa Indonesia as the national language. For many reasons, the grammar instruction of EFL is essential to build grammatical competency, language awareness, and communicative ability. Therefore, the instructional processes of English grammar have an important role in order to provide the learners with sufficient grammatical competency and language awareness on English. The grammatical problems made by the students in written communication are not relatively allowed, then. The students’ grammatical problems in writing should be initially corrected and academically improved. This paper, developed based on a part of research results conducted in 2013/2014 academic year at the English Department of FKIP Universitas Bung Hatta, Padang, discusses the forms and types of students’ grammatical problems in writing simple paragraphs. In addition, the discussion continues to analyze whether the grammatical problems found in the learners’ simple paragraphs can be academically assigned as lack of grammatical competency and/or their own language carelessness. The data are students’ grammatical problems found in their written simple paragraphs. The data analysis may reasonably come to the conclusion that most of the grammatical problems belong to student’s lack of grammatical competency and the others to their language carelessness.
The Students’ Errors In Using Simple Present Tense In Writing Descriptive Texts At SMK N 4 Padang Dewi Murni; Lely Refnita
Innovative: Journal Of Social Science Research Vol. 3 No. 2 (2023): Innovative: Journal Of Social Science Research (Special Issue)
Publisher : Universitas Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai

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This study set out to identify the common errors made by students at SMKN 4 Padang when using the simple present tense to write descriptive texts. This study used a descriptive research design. The first graders at SMKN 4 Padang made up the study's population. In this study, a proportional stratified random sampling with a sample size of 31 students was used. Writing tests were used as the instrument for gathering data for this study. Using the Pearson Product Moment formula, the researcher examined the writing test's reliability. The test's correlation coefficient of 0.90 confirmed it. The analysis's findings demonstrated the validity of the writing test. It indicates that the test was valid. The findings of this study demonstrated that the first graders at SMKN 4 Padang made errors when using the simple present tense to write descriptive texts. It was established that 16% of students made a singular-plural error, 32% made a verb tense error, 38% made a spelling error, 90% made a punctuation error, and 96% made a capitalization error. Finally, it can be inferred from the results that the students at SMKN 4 Padang made a lot of errors on writing mechanics. It is advised that the teachers remind the students about grammatical errors, particularly in punctuation and capitalization, and help them develop their writing skills with active, creative, inventive, and enjoyable learning approaches. Grammar errors should be avoided when writing descriptive texts and students should practice more. It is also advised that future researchers use this research finding as a reference.
Co-Authors Dewi Murni