An Analysis On The Students’ Grammatical Errors In Writing Descriptive Texts And Narrative Texts

Abstract

This research was carried out to analyze and to classify the types of errors of
student’s grammatical errors in writing descriptive and narrative texts. The errors
collected were classified based on Corder’s theory. Besides, this research aimed
to find out the kind of errors and the most frequent errors found in the descriptive
texts and narrative texts written by English Department Students Batch 2017 of
FKIP Lambung Mangkurat University of Banjarmasin. The methods used in this
research were quantitative and descriptive methods. The subjects of this research
were English Department students’ batch 2017 of FKIP Lambung Mangkurat
University of Banjarmasin in the academic year of 2018/2019. The researcher
took 60 students as the sample. The data were collected through tests. The
students were asked to write descriptive texts and narrative texts consist of 150
words within 80 minutes. Based from the result, the researcher concluded that
there were four types of errors in descriptive texts and narrative texts written by
the students: omission, addition, misformation and misordering. The first highest
number of error was omission with six errors (66.67%). The second-highest
number of errors was disordering with four errors or 100%, and then followed by
addition with two errors or 100%, and misformation was the lowest quantity of
total occurrences with two errors or 100%. Considering of the research, the
researcher suggests to the students that they should learn more about grammar.
The students can improve and increase their knowledge by writing practice and
read more books that related to grammar.