Abstract
<p class="5AbstrakIsi">Students cannot avoid making errors which might enrich learners’ knowledge in using a foreign language. Error as such a systematic deviation which occurs when the student has not learned something of the language and gets it wrong constantly, because he has not learned the correct form. However, there are some factors that cause the errors such as carelessness, first language interference, and translation. When using English in their essays writing, students might make errors in various aspects of grammar, such as tenses, aspects, word classes, word order, inflections, and punctuation. Therefore, the accuracy of using them in the writing of English sentences must be considered, especially by students who are developing writing skills in English as a foreign language. By writing English sentences according to the grammatical structure, the meaning of it will be accurate, easily understood and acceptable. This article aims to identify types of grammatical errors made by the students of English education department at STKIP PGRI Ponorogo in writing essay and find out the factors causing the students’ grammatical errors in writing essay.</p>
Highlights
English is one of the international languages used in the world
In Indonesia, English is learnt from elementary up to university because it is very important in this globalization era
This research uses the qualitative descriptive which was chosen to present and describe the grammatical errors found in the essays written by English Department students of STKIP PGRI Ponorogo in the academic year 2018/2019
Summary
English is one of the international languages used in the world. In Indonesia, English is learnt from elementary up to university because it is very important in this globalization era. In the process of learning a foreign language, making errors is a common thing that the Indonesian learners face when they write an essay They necessarily need knowledge of the grammatical rules. By writing English sentences according to the grammatical structure, the meaning of it will be accurate, understood and acceptable In this context, the grammatical errors analyzed are limited on tenses, aspects, and word classes. The first is providing data from which inferences about the nature of the language learning process can be made It is to indicate teachers and curriculum developers which part of the target language students have most difficulty producing correctly, and which error types detract most from a learner’s ability to communicate effectively. The errors caused first language interference mostly in the area of misusing verb, using incorrect prepositions and redundant preposition, omitting and misusing articles, misusing plural/singular agreement, adjectives, and conjunctions; and (3) Translation, which is because of students blindly translating a sentence, phrase or an idiomatic expression from their first language into the language they are learning
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