Grammatical Problem Research Articles

ERROR ANALYSIS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Abstract: The objectives of this research were to figure out and describe the types of grammatical simple present tense errors are found in the one of vocational high school in West Kalimantan 2022/2023. This research used qualitative case study research to analysis the students’ writing ability in descriptive text using present tense based on the four level type of errors: omission, addition, selection and ordering for the one of vocational high school in West Kalimantan. It was conducted on February 2023. The researcher took 12 students as the sample. The subjects of this research was the the one of vocational high school in West Kalimantan 2022/2023 academic year. To collect the data, the researcher used essay writing test with students. After collected the dataafrom the subjects the researcher analysis the dataaby using error analysis method to analyzed qualitative data. The resultaof thisaresearch showedathat the students level of writing skills in descriptive text using present tense is average. The result of this research showed that the students most errors was in error of selection, The most difficult category in writing was in grammatical problem therefore the students should foccus and pay attention on terms of identify reference without ignoring the other aspect of rules of language. Keyword: Error analysis, writing, descriptive text

Comic Strips: Its Usage for Solving Students’ Grammatical Problem in Writing Past Tense

The objective of this study intended to find out whether there was significance influence of comic strips when it used to help eight grade students for solving their problem in writing past tense. In this research researcher applied comic strips as instructional media to teach them writing. Quantitative research with true-experimental research was implemented as the research design. The sample of this research consist of 34 students from one class of eight grade of junior high school. The result from post test showed that the students’ mean score before taught using comic strips was 57.32 and reached to 77.94 after the teacher apllied comic strips. The result of t-score was 10.493 and the t-table was 1.692 at the level of significance of 0.05. Furthermore, in corelation between hypothesis and data analyzation it can be sumed up that there was significant influence between comic strips and students’ writing in past tense. The increasing of mean score proved that there was improvement on students’ writing skill in composing or writing past tense by applying comic strips as their instructional media for teaching and learning proccess.

مشاكل القواعد في ترجمة مجموعة قصة قصيرة "أرنى الله" لتوفيق الحكيم في موضوع الحب

The problem in this research is the grammatical problem found in the translation of the short story collection of Arinillah by Taufik Hakim. This study aims to determine (1) the number of grammatical problems, (2) the types of grammatical problems, and to describe (3) the relationship between the translated text and the theory of grammatical problems found in Arinillah's short stories with the theme of love. Based on the data sources studied, the researcher found grammatical problems in the level of phrases and sentences found in four short story titles with the theme of love. The results of this study are tarkib washfi, tarkib idhafi, atahf mathuf, taukid, simple sentences, complete sentences, and complex sentences in a collection of short stories titled Taufik Hakim Arinillah. The short stories contain Taufik Hakim's philosophical thoughts which are good for the development of today's mindset

Grammatical Problem in the Result Section of Master Theses

The aim of this research was to investigate the grammatical problems in the result section of master theses and to know the possible causes of grammatical problems in the theses written by the English education postgraduate program students of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of the University of Bengkulu. This study used a mixed method. Documentation, a checklist and an interview were the instruments utilized in this mixed-method research. Most of the grammatical problems were investigated quantitatively, and the causes of grammatical problems were studied qualitatively. The corpus of this study was 20 master theses written by English education postgraduate program students who have graduated in 2021. The findings showed that the most frequent grammatical problems found in the result section of the master thesis were incorrect verbs with 39,8% or 51 times, which were dominated by subject-verb agreement and tense confusion which confuse the reader. The cause of the grammatical problems found in the result section of the thesis was carelessness with 39,16% or 94 times. The conclusion of this study provides information about the most frequent grammatical problems and possible causes in the master thesis result section to increase the writer's awareness about the importance of grammatical writing in the result section.
 Keywords: Grammatical Problems, Result Section, Theses

Pragmatic Awareness in EFL Context: An Assessment on English Literature Students

The purpose of the research was to explore students’ pragmatic awareness and their ability in recognizing grammatical and pragmatic problematic scenarios. There were 25 B2 level students of English Literature study program participated in the study. All students were in their forth year of study and have completed Pragmatics course. The participants were asked to read 15 scenarios of judgment task and to decide whether the given scenarios presented pragmatic or grammatical problem or were unproblematic. The result revealed that the participants were better in recognizing pragmatic problems, followed by the identification of unproblematic scenarios and lastly, participants’ were weakest at recognizing grammatical errors.

The Application of Self- and Peer- Assessment to English Writing in Senior High School

English writing can be seen as an overt manifestation of one’s English competence. While in China, it’s not easy for students to write an excellent composition with few language errors. Various problems will be found in students’ written product, such as, vocabulary problem, grammatical problem and discourse problem. Hence, in order to solve these problems in English writing and cultivate students’ English writing ability, feedback efficiency has gained great attention in English writing teaching. Self-assessment and peer-assessment are ways to give feedback in English writing to enrich the validity and efficiency of assessment. Hence, this research aims to apply research analysis method to study the application of self-assessment and peer-assessment to English writing in senior high school, and provide some suggestions for English teaching.

PROBLEMS IN TRANSLATED ABSTRACT OF STUDENTS’ THESIS AT UNIVERSITAS BUNG HATTA

This study aims at analyzing problems identified in English-translated abstract of students’ theses. The problems are categorized into: grammatical problem and lexical problem. Due to the large number of population, proportionate stratified random sampling technique with 5 % margin of error was applied. The numbers of sample were 172 thesis abstracts. Thses written by students majoring in English were excluded. The problems were investigated by using text analysis. The analysis revealed that students had a lot of grammatical and lexical problems in their English –translated abstract. Based on the appearance of their translated abstracts, it is assumed that mother tounge interference affected them. REFERENCES Baker, Mona (1992) In Other Words. London and New York: Routledge. Catford, John C. (1980) A Linguistic Theory of Translation : An Essay in Applied Linguistics. London : Oxford University Press Cho, Jacee & Slabakova, Roumyana (2015) A feature-based contrastive approach to the L2 acquisition of specificity, Applied Linguistics. (1-23) Ciordia, Leticia Santamaria (2016) A contrastive and sociolinguistic approach to the translation of vulgarity from Spanish into English and Polish in the film Tie me up! Tie me down! (Pedro Aldomovar), Translation and Interpreting Studies. 11(2)(287-305). Hatim, Basil and Munday, Jeremy (2004) Translation. London & New York: Routledge Lubis, Syahron (2013) Collocation as source of translation unacceptability: Indonesian students’ experiences, International Journal of English Linguistics. 3(5)(20-28) doi: 10.5539/ ijel.v3n5p20 Munday, Jeremy (2008) Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications (2nd ed.), London & New York: Routledge Nurasieta, Ajeng Febriani (2015) the Translation of Demonstrative References from English into Indonesian in Thesis Abstracts in Study Program of English Universitas Brawijaya. Repositori, 2(10). Diunduh dari: http://jimbastrafib.studentjournal.ub.ac.id/ Samdi, Mohsen, dkk (2011) Problems in the Translation of Legal Terms from Persian into Englsih. Language Society and Culture, (33)(pp.108-14). Diunduh dari: www.educ.utas. edu.au/users/tle/journal/ Sukirmiyadi, dkk (2014) A Study on the Quality of Abstract Translation of Dissertation from Indonesian into English. International Journal of Linguistics, 6(2)(pp.276-96). Diunduh dari: www.macrothink.org/ijl Ulrych, Margherita & Amanda Murphy (2008) Descriptive translation studies and the use of corpora: Investigating mediation universals. In Carol Taylor Torsello, Katherine Ackerley & Erik Castello (eds.), Corpora for university language teachers, pp. 141 - 66. Bern: Peter Lang. Williams, Jenny and Chesterman, Andrew (2002) The Map. UK: St. Jerome Publishing Wright, S (2002) From Academic Comparative Law to Legal Translation in Practice.

Analysis of Generic Structure and Grammatical Problem of Students in Writing English Paragraphs in Online Learning at Muhammadiyah University of Riau

The purpose of this research is to find out the generic structure and grammatical problems encountered by the non-English students at Muhammadiyah University of Riau. The data was obtained through students writing task namely writing English paragraphs of descriptive text. The writing task was given through Learning System Management (LSM) of the university named Sikuli. The participants of this research were the Non-English students taking the English subject in the first semester in academic year of 2021/2022 at Muhammadiyah University of Riau. The samples of this research were 4 classes consisting of a number of students for each class taken randomly spreading in eight faculties. They were from Computer Science faculty (40), Communication Science faculty (28), Natural Science and Health faculty (45), and Teacher Training and Education faculty (25). The total number of students are 138. The researchers applied the theory of Gerot and Wignel (1994) and Halliday et al. (2014) from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics. In generic structure, the appropriateness and inappropriateness in formulating identification and descriptions in descriptive text were described. While, in grammatical case, the writing students were analyzed based on the theory proposed by Yarber and Yarber (2010) and Dye (2005). After the data was analyzed, the results were obtained. It was showed that the non-English students at Muhammadiyah University of Riau in writing English paragraphs of descriptive text got serious problem on writing identification (115/83%) as one of the generic structure in descriptive text. In addition, they also encountered grammatical problems such as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, parallelism, modifiers, subject-verb agreement, punctuation, and capitalization. Based on the numbers and the percentage of the grammatical problems above, it showed that the non-English students at Muhammadiyah University of Riau got serious problem on subject-verb agreement (129 / 14,16%).
 Keywords: Generic structure, Grammatical problems, Writing English paragraphs, Online learning

Highlighting Grammatical Errors By Using Writing Journal to Improve Writing Accuracy

Errors and mistakes in foreign language use is the reflection of learners’ language learning process. Learners can profit from their errors if appropriate feedback is provided after errors or mistakes have committed by learners. Even in modern times errors have not been tolerated in language classrooms and seen as a deficiency in language use. However, according to important scholars errors present a view which is related with learners’ discovery of a foreign language. Within the light of this perspective the current research aimed to analyze the grammatical problem and overcome the problem with writing journal. Besides, this study investigated grammatical problems and its solution, the participants were third years students of English department.
 They The researcher proposes, in this paper, the action research with a quasi quantitative and qualitative design, to provide some important insights into the use of journal writing as a means to improve grammatical accuracy with no prior exposure to journal writing in English. The data on the undergraduates’ grammatical accuracy will be analyzed through their journal entries covering both dialogue-journaling and process-writing entries, while their opinions of journal entries and grammatical accuracy were obtained through their dialogue journaling entries and interview responses. Findings are discussed, and recommendations for future research are made. It is also hoped that journal writing can be another useful learning activity and a teaching alternative to enhance EFL undergraduates’ grammatical accuracy.

Minimal consistent DFA from sample strings

We review the grammatical inference problem for regular languages which aims to generate a deterministic finite automaton from a representative set of training sample strings known to be in or not in the language. Although the general problem of producing a minimal DFA consistent with a given sample is known to be NP-hard, it is possible to generate minimal consistent DFA in polynomial time if certain constraints are satisfied by the given samples. In this work we propose a new algorithm which generates minimal DFA if the given training samples satisfy a certain sufficient condition. On the negative side, we also show that this problem is indeed hard, such that even for a more restricted class of training sets, the problem of generating minimal consistent DFA is already intractable.

COLLEGE STUDENT’S PROBLEMS IN WRITING PARAGRAPH ( A CASE STUDY AT FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF INFORMATICS MANAGEMENT OF AMIK MITRA GAMA)

The purpose of this study is to analyze problems faced by the college students of the Informatics Management study program at AMIK Mitra Gama in writing a paragraph. This study was descriptive qualitative research. The participants of this research were fourth-grade students of the Informatics Management study program attending the Applied English II course and registered on the 2018/2019 academic year, 31 students. Instrumentation of this research was student’s paragraph writing entitled “Computer in the Digital Age” in 100-150 words and interview. The result of this study found that the students had the organization of paragraph, grammatical and mechanics problems in writing a paragraph. The most typical difficulty was the organization of paragraph problems in writing concluding sentences (90,3%). Secondly, grammatical problem in using adjective (77,4%), article (64,5%), and verb (58,1%). Third, mechanics problem in punctuation (38,7%). Lastly, based on the interview, these problems arise from the students' used Google Translate more often in finishing their writing. They translated their paragraph in Bahasa Indonesia into English directly without paying attention to the aspects of writing a paragraph. It made them difficult in choosing the appropriate words. For the next study, it was suggested to further investigate another aspect of grammatical (preposition, transition word, and conjunctions) and mechanics of writing such as content and organization. It implies that writing skills should be included in course design to enhance student’s ability in writing.

An Analysis of Omission in Students’ English Writings

This paper is part of research with a larger scope covering errors students made related to subject-verb agreement. This part aims to elaborate grammatical problems faced by foreign language learners of English in relation to the omission they made in their writings. A qualitative data collection method was applied in gathering the data. The researchers collected pieces of writing from the students, read them, and analysed the omission errors found in the collected writings. As result, the most common omissions found in the data are related to verb markers. Omission of main verbs and auxiliaries also occur, creating sentences without any verbs or grammatically necessary auxiliaries. Absense of these kinds of function in Indonesian is the main reason for this grammatical problem faced by the learners. In addition, omissios of suffix -ing were also found by the researchers in the data. These findings should be able to contribute to existing works on grammatical errors and increase the success of both teaching and learning of a foreign language like English.Key Words: error, grammar, omission, writing

THE ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL PROBLEMS AND GENERIC STRUCTURE OF NARRATIVE TEXT WRITTEN BY THE ELEVENTH GRADUATE STUDENTS OF LANGUAGE PROGRAM AT SMAK ST.KLAUS WERANG-WEST FLORES

The study was intended to analyze grammatical problem and generic structures of narrative text written by the eleventh grade students of Language program at SMAK St. Klaus–West Flores in the academic year 2016/2017. The data were mainly collected through assigment on narrative written text and itervies and were analyzed descriptively using Dulay’lingistics taxonomy (1982) and Fink’ category (2005). The result of data analysis revealed that the students committed errors in their narrrative writing, namely article, possessive case, omission of – ed, regularization by adding –ed, simple present tense used in place of simple past tense, omission of –be, pluralization, pronoun, preposition, omission of main verb, subject verb agreement, word order, diction, spelling, passive form, adverb, conjunction, double marking, and modals. The cause of error was interference, lack of vocabularies, and motivation, and teacher’ ability/qualification.

Analyzing Students’ Writing Grammatical Problem in the Use of Tenses: The Case of Seventh Grade Student Of Junior High School

Grammar is one of the most difficult capabilities found in English. Grammar difficulty will affect other English skills such as reading, speaking, listening, and writing. Tenses belong to one part of grammar. Most students still struggle to use tenses well. Tenses contained in this grammar material need to be studied so that students can distinguish the time of conversation and the meaning of a sentence and how to make a sentence in accordance with the tenses that have been studied. This research was designed in the form of qualitative research, especially in descriptive method. It meant that the researcher would like to investigate the use of tenses (especially past, present, future, continous, and present perfect) and to identify the grammatical errors in using tense (especially past, present, future, continous, and present perfect) in students junior high school of seventh grade with close task.

Grammar Jam: Adding a Creative Editing Tactic

The author argues reading, hearing, and then composing musical lyrics involving grammatical concerns can help college writing students to edit more effectively for a song's grammar topic. Explaining that the songs need to offer specific advice, such as how to both spot and correct the grammatical problem, the writer offers lyrical examples and provides scholarly evidence for this approach. The essay explains what Grammar Jam is, why music can work, and how to use the tactic in the classroom.

Agreement with conjoined arguments in Kuria

How languages solve the grammatical problem of agreeing with conjoined arguments is a well-known area of cross-linguistic variation. This paper describes these patterns for Kuria (Bantu, Kenya), documenting a pattern of agreement that has not been previously reported. We show the relevant patterns involving a range of noun classes, showing that human noun classes trigger different effects than non-human noun classes. We also demonstrate distinctions in the grammar between subject marking and object marking: whereas subject marking allows for resolved agreement forms, object marking does not. The paper also includes a brief survey of notable patterns in other Bantu languages to put Kuria in a relevant context.

Die Überlieferung des Fr. 18 Marcovich Heraklits (= DK 22 B 81) in PHerc. 1004 (Philodemi De rhetorica, Liber vii)

The Heraclitean tradition in the Herculaneum papyri is a topic which involves some of the most important research fields of ancient philosophy: ethics, physics and cosmology, theology and aesthetics (particularly rhetoric). This paper concentrates on Heraclitus’ fr. 18 Marcovich (= DK 22 B 81), where the pre-Socratic philosopher talks about an unspecified κοπίδων ἀρχηγόϲ. The fragment occurs in the seventh book of Philodemus’ Rhetoric (PHerc. 1004) and is the only direct quotation of Heraclitus in this multi-volume treatise. This article presents a new textual reconstruction of the two columns of the papyrus in which the same passage is quoted and attempts: 1. to contextualize the quotation inside the Philodemean paraphrase of a treatise by the Stoic Diogenes of Babylon against the rhetoricians of his time; 2. to reconsider the grammatical and philosophical problem of the subject of the Heraclitean quotation. Almost all scholars have considered Pythagoras to be the target of Heraclitus. But certain elements allow us to go beyond this old opinion and to understand this fragment as something of more than a personal dispute. Rhetoric, according to its supporters, was an ‘art’ since Homer’s times and gained its professional autonomy with Corax and Tisias. There is no reason to believe that, in quoting Heraclitus, Diogenes has totally changed the subject of the fragment he cites. That subject could originally have been very similar to that attested in the Philodemean paraphrase, that is the education of the rhetoricians (ἡ τῶν ῥητόρων εἰϲαγωγή).1

The Grammatical Problem in Prepositions in Haji Awad

The Grammatical Problem in Prepositions in Haji Awad

Pro-Nicene prosopology and the church in Augustine's preaching on John 3:13

AbstractJohn 3:13 presents a grammatical and theological problem for Augustine. If the only one who ascends to heaven is the one who descended, namely Christ, then what becomes of the Christian life of ascent? To unpack Augustine's solution to this problem, this article explores his use of John 3:13 in his anti-Donatist sermons of 406–7. Here Augustine uses the grammatical method of prosopological exegesis both to identify and to solve the problem of Christ's solo ascent. Prosopology asks of a text, ‘Who is speaking? To whom is he speaking? And about whom is he speaking?’ in order to parse the sometimes ambiguous personae within a dramatic scene. Through this method, Augustine affirms that Christ is indeed speaking about himself alone, but the reflexive subject of Christ includes the church who is his body. The Christian life of ascent to God requires that we become participants in the subject of Christ's ‘I’. Building on the work of ‘New Canon’ Augustine scholarship, I argue that this use of John 3:13 to espouse the unity of the church in the body of Christ is founded upon a pro-Nicene understanding of the revelatory and epistemological role of the Son. The ability of Christ fully to reveal the Father is a central tenet of Latin pro-Nicene refutations of homoian christologies, and this revelation of the Father's Word through Christ's incarnation is accomplished in our union with that Word through his body. Based on this pro-Nicene affirmation of epistemological salvation through Christ, Augustine then uses John 3:13 to condemn the Donatists for damning themselves by separating from the body of Christ. The oneness of the ecclesial body of Christ is predicated upon the oneness of Christ himself because it is into his complex subject that we are incorporated. Separation from that unity is separation from the singular grammatical subject who ascends as Christ to the Father. Thus, Augustine's grammatical practice of prosopological exegesis to solve the problem of John 3:13 connects the pro-Nicene affirmation of Christ's revelation of the Father to an anti-Donatist defence of the necessary unity of the church. This should encourage us to consider further the ways in which pro-Nicene principles help to shape Augustine's vision of the church.

Lukas 18:7 als Anspielung auf den Deus absconditus

AbstractM. Rogland has convincingly questioned the widespread translation of µακρουµεν in Luke 18:7 by “to delay or tarry” which is based on the LXX Version of Sir 35:19. He rightly draws attention to the fact that in that verse µακρουµεν is used to translate the hithpael of which refers to “restraining or controlling oneself.” Unfortunately he does not try to interpret Luke 18:7 along that line. The present article offers a supplement to his article with an interpretation of verse 7 that solves a grammatical problem and fits in perfectly with the context of Luke 18:1-8.