The Analysis on the Grammatical Errors of the First Year Students Essays

Abstract

Abstract:A language learner often faces many linguistic differences, especially if the native language and the target language are from different language families. The current study investigates the grammatical errors made by the first year students of the English Department, Faculty of Letters, Jember University, Indonesia. The data were collected from 30 participants' essays of Writing 01 class (documentary data) conducted from August to December 2014. Having been identified, the errors were classified into various categorizations, and analyzed based on descriptive-interpretative method to find the possible sources of the errors. The research revealed that the learners committed ten types of grammatical errors, and the six mostly prominent errors were plural form, subject-verb agreement, verb tense, word form, subject/verb omission, and passive voice respectively. This research also showed that the errors mostly resulted from the different linguistic principles of Indonesian and English (interlingual transfer), and partly from the faulty of overgeneralization of English rules (intralingual transfer). The overt influences of Indonesian to English as well as the overgeneralization of English rules can provide the writing teachers and course designers with insightful guidelines for better understanding of the sources of errors, which in turn, can help them to apply the more appropriate approaches to manage the foreign language learners' errors of the students.

Analisis Kesalahan Gramatikal Dalam Abstrak Berbahasa Inggris

“…Beberapa penelitian terdahulu tentang kesalahan gramatikal telah dilakukan oleh beberapa peneliti. Pertama, penelitian yang dilakukan oleh (Sukarno 2016) menghasilkan 10 jenis kesalahan gramatikal yaitu bentuk jamak (plural form), kesesuaian subjek-kata kerja (subject-verb agreement), kata kerja tense (verb tense), bentuk kata (word form), penghilangan subjek/kata kerja (subject/verb omission) kalimat pasif (passive voice), kata sandang (article), kata depan (preposition), kata ganti (pronoun), dan bentuk negatif ganda (double negation). Kedua, penelitian oleh (Herlina 2017) mengemukakan bahwa jenis kesalahan gramatikal yang dilakukan adalah misformation (145 item), omission (56 item), addition (19 item), dan misordering (5 item).…”

Kajian Terhadap Common Errors dalam Penerapan Aturan Subject-Verb Agreement Bahasa Inggris

“…Selain penelitian yang telah dijabarkan sebelumnya, masih terdapat beberapa penelitian lain yang sejalan dengan penelitian ini. Diantaranya adalah (Sukarno, 2016) yang menghasilkan 10 (sepuluh) bentuk kesalahan terkait dengan gramatikal bahasa Inggris dimana satu diantaranya terkait dengan aturan Subject-verb Agreement. Lalu (Fitria, 2021) yang menemukan 3 jenis kesalahan gramatikal dengan persentase tertinggi terdapat pada aspek Subject-verb Agreement, dan penelitian yang dilakukan oleh (Kusumawati & Sugiarsi, 2020) menghasilkan ketepatan dan ketidaktepatan penggunaan tenses di masing-masing item abstrak berbahasa Inggris.…”

Native Language Interference in Learning a Second Language

“…Furthermore, many studies that have been investigated regarding errors in grammar have been carried out such as (Febriyanti & Sundari, 2016;Heryanti et al, 2017;Sanu, 2016;Sukarno, 2016). Generally, the studies are more viewed from the perspective of essays and narrative paragraph writing.…”