STUDENTS’ GRAMMAR AND SENTENCE STRUCTURE OF THE TEXTS WRITTEN IN PARAGRAPH WRITING CLASS

Aisyah Ririn Perwikasih Utari

doi:10.24176/pro.v2i1.2968

Abstract

Writing a text becomes the last skill in English learning. It needs a productive creativity and ability of the language used in it. The learners should listen, speak, read, and write to prove that they can use English well. Paragraph Writing is the first writing subject in the curriculum of English Education Department which should be taken by the students who are in the second semester. The activities of writing cover some processes in which they should know and apply the theories to practice writing some texts. Grammar and sentence structure are the crucial problems faced by the students. It needs an extra attention to make them understand about the components involved in this element of writing. The components are applied step by step from the beginning of the semester until it ends. The research problems are raised with some questions as follows: (1) what are the grammar and sentence structure’s components of the students’ text in Paragraph Writing class? ; (2) How is the analysis of grammar and sentence structure of the students’ text in Paragraph Writing class?. Further chapter of the research will provide the analyzed data and the result as the answer of the problems raised. The texts written by the students as the data source are randomly chosen from the whole final projects. From the result of the analysis, it can be found that 63% of the total texts are grammatically incorrect. The components of grammar structure are also recorded that there are 10% of the sentences are stringy, 5% comma splice, 10% run-on sentence, and 12% sentence fragment. Mostly, the problem that the students face are about concidering the tense and verb words. The conjunctions that influence the meaning are also mostly mis-used. The percentages found in the analysis show that most of the students make some errors in their grammar use in writing their paragraph writing project. The suggestions of the correct ones are also written in their text sheets to make further revisions. This can make them concern more to learn from the analysis. Paragraph writing class is like a stepping stone for them to start learning from mistakes.

Highlights

Writing in English should not be a difficult thing anymore for university level students
The note consists of the components of grammar and sentence structure found in the texts written by the students in Paragraph Writing Class.The source of the data is the final project of the students who join the paragraph writing class in the second semester of English education Department of Muriakudus University
The data are the texts which are being analyzed based on its components of grammar and sentence structure used in each text.The data collecting covers some steps which will be done as follows: (1) Getting permission from the Dean of the Faculty; (2) Applying the writing activities of grammar and sentence structure in paragraph writing class; (3) Asking the students to write a text as the final project of the paragraph writing class

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Writing in English should not be a difficult thing anymore for university level students. How to write a text with correct sentence structure is a crucial thing to do, because the purpose of writing is making the message from the writer to the reader successfully sent appropriately without significant misunderstanding and ambiguity. Every single sentence plays its important roles to the whole message, especially for written text. This means a meaningful sentence will be based on its structure, whether it is correct or incorrect. Readers can only focus on the text they read, without being able of making a direct clarification like in a spoken text or a conversation This should be known by writers; clear things are provided to be interpreted by readers

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