EDUVELOP (Journal of English Education and Development)
Vol 3 No 2 (2020): Eduvelop: Journal of English Education and Development

An Analysis of Grammatical Error of English Students in Writing Skill

Nanning Nanning (IAIN Parepare)
Saepuddin (IAIN Parepare)
Munawir (IAIN Parepare)



Article Info

Publish Date
21 Mar 2020

Abstract

This research was to find out the kinds of grammatical errors made by the students in writing undergraduate theses and to find out the most common error made by the students. The research problem is What were the kinds of grammatical error made by the students in writing undergraduate thesis? And What was the most common grammatical error made by the students in writing undergraduate thesis? The population of this research was the English students’ undergraduate theses. This research used cluster random sampling technique. The researchers chose 20 backgrounds of undergraduate theses as the sample. The result of this research found eight kinds of grammatical error made by the students namely Article, Verb Tense, Subject-Verb Agreement, Singular/Plural, Word Class, Sentence Structure, Spelling, and Punctuation. The most common grammatical error made by the students in writing undergraduate theses is error in Verb Tense with 86 errors (27.65%). The next is Word Class with 55 errors (17.68%), Sentence Structure with 42 errors (13.50%), Article with 37 grammatical errors (11.89%), Punctuation with 28 errors (9%), Singular/Plural with 24 errors (7.71%), Spelling with 21 errors (6.75%), and Subject-Verb Agreement with 18 errors (5.78%).

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Journal Info

Abbrev

eduvelop

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

EDUVELOP (Journal of English Education and Development) Universitas Sulawesi Barat invites the researchers, academics, to publish the results of research related to English education. This journal will be publishing the articles September 2018 with ISSN 2597-713X (print), ISSN 2597-7148 ...