Waris, Abd. (2009) Gramatical errors in writing produced by the students of Muhammadiyah University of Malang / Abd. Waris. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Malang.
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ABSTRACT Waris Abd. 2008. Grammatical Errors in Writing Produced by the Students of Muhammadiyah University of Malang. Thesis. Postgraduate Program in English Language Education Study Program State University of Malang. Advisors I) Prof. H. M. Adnan Latief M.A. Ph.D. (II) Dr. Nur Mukminatien M.Pd. Key words grammatical errors writing This study aims to find out the grammatical errors produced by the students of the English Department at Muhammadiyah University of Malang in writing in terms of the most type of error that are made by the students. The population of the study was the students who took Writing II and Writing IV courses in the year 2007/2008 and the sample comprises 30 students of each course. The data were taken from Writing II and Writing IV assignments. The errors on the two writing courses were analyzed to find out whether or not there was an improvement from Writing II to Writing IV. The errors were identified by two readers reading the students written works on Writing II and Writing IV courses. The types of errors were divided into omission addition misformation and misordering and these types of error cover articles prepositions adverbs nouns and verbs. Besides there are various errors on linguistic categories such as agreement parallelism passive sentences and some grammatical morphemes such as final -s -ing form etc. The data were analyzed using error analysis. The result of data analysis shows that there are 416 errors all made by the students in Writing II but there are only 81 errors made in Writing IV. In Writing II there are 182 or 4.26% omission errors 90 or 2.00%% addition errors 130 or 3.35%% misformation errors and 14 or 2.71% misordering or word order errors from all errors identified. In Writing IV there are 42 or 2.42% omission errors 15 or 0.98% addition errors 23 or 1.34% misformation errors and 1 or 0.29% misordering or word order error. Omission is the most error produced by the students of all errors investigated from the two writing subjects. There are 53 or 13.28% errors of final -s in Writing II. Final -s that deals with plural marker and the third person singular is the most type of error made. The omissions of final -s are also the most errors made by the students for addition errors of Writing IV but not for addition errors of Writing II because in Writing II prepositions are the most errors made. In terms of misformation the errors of verb are mostly produced by the students. In Writing II there are three types of omission error categorized as having the highest frequency of occurrence. The first is omission of final -s the number of errors is 53 or 13.28% and the second is omission of articles 33 errors or 7.47%. Finally is the omission of auxiliary verbs which has 20 errors or 6.39% from all omission errors. In terms of addition errors preposition has the highest frequency it has 22 errors or 6.92% of all errors followed by the error of noun which has11 errors or 0.88%. The last type of error is the error of auxiliary verb This type of error has 10 or 3.19% from all errors of addition. In terms of misformation there are 32 or 6.14% errors of verb followed by pronoun which has 24 or 5.26% errors and adjective which has 19 or 8.60% errors. In Writing IV the omission of final s is 2.97% followed by the auxiliary verbs 6.15% and 2.4% errors of preposition. In terms of addition the errors of final -s is 1.37% they are the most errors made followed by the auxiliary verb and preposition each has 2.86% and 0.49%. In terms of misformation the errors of verb are the most errors made or 1.63%. Errors of adjective and noun are 2.65% and 0.35%. The number of errors is significantly reduced from Writing II to Writing IV. This means that the higher the level the fewer errors they make. In other words there is an improvement in the teaching of writing courses at the English Department in Muhammadyah University of Malang. Based of the result of this research it is suggested that (1) the teachers of writing courses at the English Department in Muhammadyah University of Malang should consider the errors made by the students as they still can be reduced by using certain ways. For example it can be done by providing the students with appropriate grammar works based on the errors they make during the fluency practice in order to make the students aware of their errors and to help them improve their writing ability (2) the teachers should give feedback to students by returning their written works after they have been corrected (3) the students need to have more practice in English grammar so the same errors may not occur anymore when writing a composition. This study concerns only with limited grammatical errors so other researchers are recommended to carry out the other research comprising a large scale of grammatical errors that students can produce in writing composition.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Sastra (FS) > Departemen Sastra Inggris (ING) > S2 Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | library UM |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2009 04:29 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2009 03:00 |
| URI: | http://repository.um.ac.id/id/eprint/58395 |
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