Abstract
The research aimed to investigate types of common grammatical errors and dominant errors in writing narrative essays of students at the Youth Resource Center, Savannakhet. This study focuses on English students at the Youth Resource Center Savannakhet. The study employed a qualitative method. A sample group was 19 (12 male and 7 female) English students who learn English as an extra class. Data collection was conducted by testing writing narrative essay. The students were requested to write descript based on their stories under the theme: unforgettable moments in life. It’s consisting their experiences, holidays, and else. The researcher was analyzed data by using a descriptive initially statistic, a complete program Excel to present the data. As the result revealed that: there were 6 categories of common grammatical errors in students’ narrative essay writing such verb-tense there were 120 times with 28%, punctuation which came 99 times with 24%, spelling happened 63 times equal 15%, preposition came with 59 times with 14%, capital letter happened 58 times with 14%, and last was article error occurred 21 times with 5%. The most dominant type of grammatical error is verb-tense came with frequency 79. This was because of the students’ lack of knowledge in grammatical writing skill.
Highlights
Writing is an activity or action in which people transfer knowledge and ideas through written form
The aim of this study is to investigate the common type of grammatical errors, examine the effects of L1 (Thai language) inference on discovered grammatical errors, and provide some essential pedagogical implications for second language learning and teaching
RESULT This study investigates the common grammatical errors in writing narrative essays of students at the Youth Resource Center, Savannakhet
Summary
Writing is an activity or action in which people transfer knowledge and ideas through written form. It’s certainly reflected people’s thoughts, imagination, and even the process of transferring writer’s thinking by hand-writing (Meyer, 2005). It is learners who write something on the papers, but they consider to the content exactly. According to Nunan (2003) stated that writing is a mental and physical act of the most basic levels He elaborated writing is mentioned in creating ideas and thinking about how to express the story into paragraphs to intent the reader make sense and easy understand. It’s true to say that writing is the people’s ability to create words and the process of arranging ideas to produce language in the learning process. It’s one way to provide the learners with the best chance to express their creative ideas in learning a new language
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