Abstract

This study aimed to examine grammatical error types, retention of the correction in the students’ writing, and their opinions on the error correction. The research was conducted on 30 first year English-major students studying a grammar course of 15 weeks at UttaraditRajabhat University in Thailand. The study analyzed 1,800 sentences, and errors found in the exercises were compared to those of the follow-up tests. The analysis used percentage, means, and standard deviations. The results indicated the most grammatical errors found were errors in verb, the others including errors in determiner, noun, preposition, sentence structure, adverb, and adjective. The correction by group discussion improved writing ability, and retained. The students’ opinions on the way of error correction were at high level.

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