JOEL: Journal of Educational and Language Research
Vol. 1 No. 4: Nopember 2021

AN ANALYSIS ON GRAMMATICAL ERRORS OF STUDENTS’ WRITINGS

Qurinta Shinta (Universitas Semarang)



Article Info

Publish Date
27 Nov 2021

Abstract

The purpose of this descriptive study is to examine students' grammatical errors in their writings at Diponegoro University's First Semester Public Health Students. The target population consisted of 20 Public Health students of UNDIP enrolled in an English class who were chosen at random from a pool of 75. A writing assignment was conducted to asses the students grammatical errors based on surface strategy taxonomy. The results show the errors form the highest to the lowest percentage: misinformation (56,8%), omission (23,5%), addition (19,6%) and misordering (0%). Based on the results, it can be concluded that misinformation especially dealing with alternating forms is the most frequent errors made by students. This is caused by poor understanding of grammatical structure, lack of vocabulary mastery, and L1 direct translation tendencies

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JOEL

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

JOEL: Journal of Educational and Language Research published by Bajang Institute, was established in twelve times a year and with printed version of ISSN: 2807-937X and the online version of ISSN: 2807-8721. We invite critical and constructive inquiries into wide range of fields of study with ...