International Journal of Humanities and Innovation (IJHI)
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2022): March

An analysis of students’ Grammar mastery in writing recount text

Ainun Nur Oktaviani Agustam (English Department, Faculty of Languages and Literature, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia)
Kisman Salija (English Department, Faculty of Languages and Literature, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia)
Ahmad Talib (English Department, Faculty of Languages and Literature, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 Mar 2022

Abstract

The present study aims to find out the students’ ability to write recount text and find out the students’ grammar mastery in writing recount text, and how the grammar errors that the students make relate to their recount text production. This research used mixed methods. A writing test was implemented as the instrument in this research. The population of this research was the tenth-grade students of one of the public senior high schools in Gowa regency, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Thirty students were chosen randomly using a convenience sampling approach. The researchers found that the students could construct recount text well in analyzing the data. This research also showed that all the samples achieved the minimum completeness criteria that the school determines. The sample applied grammar in recount text, including simple past tense, past continuous tense, past perfect tense, past future tense, verb conjugation, and auxiliary verb. The students' recount text had grammatical problems. Intralingual errors caused most of the errors that showed in students' recount text. It occurs because students may lack experience and knowledge of English grammar, which differs from the grammar of their native tongue. As a result, students should enhance their writing skills and practice more, especially while producing recount texts

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Journal Info

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ijhi

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Subject

Humanities Education Social Sciences

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International Journal of Humanities and Innovation (IJHI) is a peer-reviewed journal aims to publish innovative and high-quality articles covering topics in Arts and Humanities studies. The journal welcomes the paper submission of inventive and considerable contributions. Papers submitted which is ...