STUDENTS’ GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN WRITING (Exploratory Case Study at XI Grade of Senior High School of Al Abidin Bilingual Boarding School (ABBS) Surakarta Academic Year 2015 - 2016

Ahmad, Sunandar (2016) STUDENTS’ GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN WRITING (Exploratory Case Study at XI Grade of Senior High School of Al Abidin Bilingual Boarding School (ABBS) Surakarta Academic Year 2015 - 2016. Masters thesis, Universitas Widya Dharma.

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Ahmad Sunandar, NIM 14PSC01592. Students’ Grammatical Errors in Writing (Exploratory Case Study at XI Grade of Senior High School of Al Abidin Bilingual Boarding School (ABBS) Surakarta Academic Year 2015 - 2016). Thesis. Magister Programme of Language Education, Widya Dharma University Klaten, 2016. This research is aimed at: 1) Investigating types of grammatical errors found in the students’ written works. 2) Figuring out how mother tongue interference affects to the students’ written works. 3) Revealing why such errors occur in students’ written works. The research was in the form of an exploratory case study at XI grade of Senior High School of Al Abidin Bilingual Boarding School (ABBS) Surakarta Academic Year 2015 – 2016. The main data were obtained from students’ written works of Shaffa class. The research focused on the types of errors found in 20 written sheets of students’ descriptive text given as a part of assignment of the eleventh year students of ABBS Surakarta in the first semester of the academic year 2015 In this research, it was found that 1) in investigating types of grammatical errors in students’ written works, it can be inferred that there are 417 errors which occurred in students’ written works. It was found 40 types of grammatical errors in this study. It can be known that the plural nouns were the highest frequency of grammatical errors and uncountable nouns were the lowest frequency of grammatical errors which occurred in students’ written works of descriptive text. 2) In figuring out how mother tongue interference affects to students’ written works. It was found 66 or 15,83 % was caused of mother tongue interference or interlingual errors. Errors due to mother tongue interference were categorized into three: (I) word-by-word translation, it was found 14 or 21 % errors, (II) using Indonesian construction in English, it was counted 21 or 32 %, (III) using adjectives as main verbs, 31 or 47 % errors were found. 3) In revealing why such errors occur in students’ written works. Researcher found two general causes of errors in students’ written works. The total grammatical errors found in students’ written works were 417 errors, 351 (84,17 %) errors were caused of intralingual errors and 66 (15,83 %) errors were caused of interlingual errors. So, it can be inferred that the grammatical errors in students’ written works were caused of lack of grammatical understanding, and students more likely translated Indonesian into English without taking notice of the grammars. Keywords : students’ grammatical errors, students’ written works, interlingual and intralingual errors

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions:	Program Pasca Sarjana > Pendidikan Bahasa
Depositing User:	Unwidha Perpustakaan Unwidha
Date Deposited:	23 Feb 2019 06:21
Last Modified:	23 Feb 2019 06:21
URI:	http://repository.unwidha.ac.id/id/eprint/616

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