Jo-ELT (Journal of English Language Teaching) Fakultas Pendidikan Bahasa dan Seni Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris IKIP
Vol 7, No 1 (2020)

THE PREPOSITIONAL ERRORS IN STUDENTS’ WRITING

Setyaningrum, Riya Risqi (Unknown)
Fatmawaty, Riryn (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jun 2020

Abstract

One of the important things in writing is grammar. The grammatical errors in writing may or will distort and disturb the coherence of the piece of writing. A preposition is a part of grammar that important to connect one word to another. Some students ignore the preposition in the right way. So, this study is eager to analyze the errors in using preposition produced by the students' first semester of English Education Department at Unisla in academic years 2019/2020 that consist of 45 students. The study focuses on what kinds of prepositional errors that are usually produced and the types of errors in using preposition mostly produced. This study uses descriptive qualitative to describes the reasons for preposition errors occur by analyzing the students' writing. The result is the students' first semester still produces some errors in; omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. The types of error that produced by the students is misformation errors with percentage 44,93%. It means the teachers have to pay more attention to teaching prepositions.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

joelt

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal of English Language Teaching (Jo-ELT) is a journal published by the Faculty of Language Education and Art of IKIP Mataram. The journal contains the results of researches in English language teaching and researches that are closely related to theory and practice in teaching English. This ...