Journal of English Language and Education
Vol 7, No 1 (2022)

The Subject-Verb Agreement Errors on Students’ Writing

Vitri Angraini Hardi (Universitas Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai)
Lusi Marleni (Universitas Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai)
Nurhidayah Sari (Universitas Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai)



Article Info

Publish Date
20 Jan 2022

Abstract

Subject-verb agreement is an essential component to be mastered by English Language Learners to produce a good writing. Examining the students’ errors on writing is part of the evaluation in English language learning and teaching. To produce a good writing, the English language learners have to be able to know the rules of the language use. However, the English learners still struggle in mastering the subject-verb agreement in the writing. Due to the reason, it would be significant to diagnose the errors made by the students as well as to explore the factors contribute the errors. To obtain the data, the researcher employed a document analysis and a semi-structure interview. The findings showed most of the errors belonged to misinformation category (33%) and were subsequently followed by omission category (29%) and addition category (29%) and misformation (9%). In addition, from the interview the researcher also found three major factors contribute the students’ errors, namely ignorance the editing process, the unawareness of the grammar rules, and intralingual errors.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jele

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Other

Description

Journal of English Language and Education (pISSN: 2597-6850 and eISSN: 2502-4132) is a journal that focuses on researching or documenting issues in education, language education, applied linguistics, English education, English language teaching, English Literature, language assessment and ...