The grammatical errors in the descriptive texts made by the eight graders of RSBI program at SMPN 5 Malang / Evi Asmarawati - Repositori Universitas Negeri Malang

The grammatical errors in the descriptive texts made by the eight graders of RSBI program at SMPN 5 Malang / Evi Asmarawati

Asmarawati, Evi (2010) The grammatical errors in the descriptive texts made by the eight graders of RSBI program at SMPN 5 Malang / Evi Asmarawati. Diploma thesis, Universitas Negeri Malang.

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ABSTRACT Asmarawati Evi.2010. The Grammatical Errors in The Descriptive Texts Made by The Eight Graders of RSBI Program at SMPN 5 Malang.Thesis Undergraduate Study Program of English Language Education Faculty of Letters State University of Malang. Advisor Nur Hayati S. Pd M. Ed. Key words grammatical errors descriptive writing As a foreign language in Indonesia English is mostly used in the teaching and learning process only. It is not used in day to day communication.It causes EFL learners tend to make errors. The errors are more obvious in their writing. This study is intended to find out students grammatical problems in writing. It was conducted at SMPN 5 Malang. In line with the purpose of the study the design of the study was descriptive qualitative. The subjects were 30 students in the eight grade of RSBI program at SMPN 5 Malang. The instrument used to collect the data is the students descriptive compositions on the topic of favourite actor/actress. The errors found in the students compositions are then classified based on the surface strategy taxonomy on errors of omission addition misformation and misordering. The study reveals the following findings the students grammatical problems on writing paragraphs are numerous. Omission errors appear as the errors with the highest frequency (61.54 %). Errors of omission consist of omission of be omission of article omission of third person singular verb marker(s/es) omission of preposition omission of ing omission of subject and verb omission of adverb omission of adverb and omission of plural marker(s/es). Misformation errors make up 19.23% of all errors. They consist of misformation of verb misformation of preposition misformation of noun misformation of be misformation of pronoun misformation of gerund misformation of article and misformation of adjective. Addition errors come next with the percentage of 14.42%. They are addition of plural marker(s/es) addition of article addition of be addition of preposition addition of adverb addition of possessive marker and possessive pronoun and addition of third person singular marker (s/es). The type of errors with the lowest frequency is misordering errors (4.81%). They consist of misordering of noun phrase and misordering of adverb. These errors seem to be caused by interlingual and intralingual interference. Based on the findings some suggestions are proposed to improve the students mastery in English especially in writing skill. The teachers are suggested to pay attention to the stages in teaching grammar. Furthermore the students are supposed to pay more attention to the grammatical areas where the errors occur. Additionally it is recommended that further researchers conduct similar studies in different contexts with and/ or broader scope by using not only students compositions but also other data sources.

Item Type: Thesis (Diploma)
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Divisions: Fakultas Sastra (FS) > Departemen Sastra Inggris (ING) > S1 Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
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Date Deposited: 03 Feb 2010 04:29
Last Modified: 09 Sep 2010 03:00
URI: http://repository.um.ac.id/id/eprint/245250

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