Abstract

ABSTRACT
 This article explores about grammatical mistakes in writing narrative text in English Extensive course (EEC). EEC is an English program held by Sanata Dharma University. In case, there are five srtudents as participants that learn writing as subject in EEC. In learning writing, EEC students face some problems especially grammatical errrors. This article raises some problems and difficulties to write a narrative text by EEC students. This research used descriptive qualitative as a methodogy. Data collection are analyzed through the narrative text and the grammatical method. The aim of this research is to find, even in higher education level, there still found mistakes in grammar. Not mentioning vocabulary or certain spelling. Beside that reasearchers wants to find how much mistakes that has been made in grammar and mistakes that often made by students in learning writing. In conclusion, the result showed there was every student made error in each indicator. And the most error that students made was error in tense.
 Keywords: Grammatical Mistakes; Narrative Text; English Extension Course

Highlights

  • In learning English, one of the activity is learned to write words

  • This research was conducted on November 13th until November 24th, 2017 in narrative text task on Basic Writing Course of English Extensive Course (EEC)

  • The main data are grammatical mistakes from Extensive course (EEC) students when they studied about narrative text

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Introduction

In learning English, one of the activity is learned to write words. After words, learn to combine all of them. One of the kind writing is narrative text. Writing is a skill for the students to express their ideas in written form that involves the mastery of all elements in the target language: as grammar, content, organization, vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and mechanics. What grammatical mistakes often made by students in writing narrative text?

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