Students` Grammatical Errors Analysis in Paragraph Writing Second Semester of English Student FKIP UIR

Kusuma, Alfriska Teja (2018) Students` Grammatical Errors Analysis in Paragraph Writing Second Semester of English Student FKIP UIR. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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Abstract

Considering the importance of grammatical knowledge in the writing process, this research aims at describing the grammatical errors that happen in the final examination of second semester students of Islamic University of Riau. One research question is formulated in this study. That is classification type of grammatical errors in writing made by second semester students of English Department of Riau State University in the academic year of 2017/2018, based on the indicators of Betty S. Azar’s (1989). This research was conducted with a Qualitative Method in order to describe Grammatical Error in Paragraph Writing. The samples were 30 students of 2 second semester students in English Language Education at FKIP UIR. The instrument used in this research was documentation of writing test result. In short brief result of this research finding, the student produced errors is all13 types of errors. This data was sorted by high percentage, which was found in the error of omit words, spelling, capitalization and singular-plural at 31,%, 23%,10% and 9% consecutively. Meanwhile, the lower about the percentages were found in word choice 6%, punctuation 6%, article, word form 3%, add word 2%, incomplete sentence, 2% tenses and word order 1% KeyWords: Grammatical Error, Paragraph Writing

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