Joko Iswanto
English Education Department, STAI Miftahul Ulum Tanjungpinang, Indonesia

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AN ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL ERROR IN WRITING PERSONAL LETTERS Taufik Afdal; Joko Iswanto; Ririn Dwi Riana
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Publisher : Universitas Negeri Islam Sumatera Utara

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30829/inspiration.v1i2.14162

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The study aims to discover the grammatical errors made by students when writing personal letters. The indicators are sentence pattern error, tense error, pronoun error, preposition error, and punctuation error. The researcher would be able to determine the types of errors that students made in their writings based on these indicators. The descriptive qualitative method was used in this study. The students were from SMK Negeri 1 Bintan Timur's class XI. The Samples consisted of 13 students. The samples were collected using total sampling by the researcher. The instrument was performing a test. In conclusion, the results revealed that each student made an error in each indicator. And the most common error made by students was an error in Sentence Pattern, which accounted for 37% of all errors. And the lowest error is in Pronoun by 19%. Keywords: Grammatical Error ; Writing ; Personal Letter  
AN ERRORS ANALYSIS IN FORMING PLURAL OF NOUNS AT SMPS PELITA NUSANTARA TANJUNGPINANG Joko Iswanto; Eka Mayasari; Rika Febria
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Publisher : Universitas Negeri Islam Sumatera Utara

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30829/inspiration.v2i1.14688

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This research aims to analyse the learners’ errors in their process of second language learning. The problem of this research was the students did not understand and could not apply the right rules for changing the plural form from its singular. The Purpose of this research was to see the errors made by the seventh-grade students of SMPS Pelita Nusantara which consists of 16 students in forming the plural of nouns and to find the causing factors of errors made by them. The method of this research was descriptive qualitative research. The technique to collect the data, the researcher distributed essay tests and open-ended questions. The technique to analyze this research were collecting the data from students’ work, identifying the students’ error by underlining the error items, classifying the students’ errors based on surface strategy taxonomy, explaining the students’ errors, calculating the percentage of each error. The result of the tests was most of the students made errors on the type of irregular forms because the rules of irregular were more complicated. The factors of students’ errors in regular plural because they did not understand and forgot the rules and made them confused to change the word from singular into plural forms. Keywords: Error Analysis; Plural form; Nouns.