Jurnal Ilmiah Spectral
Vol 8, No 2 (2022): Jurnal Ilmiah Spectral

ERROR ANALYSIS OF SENTENCE STRUCTURE ON STUDENTS' PARAGRAPH WRITING

Endang Setiyo Astuti (IKIP Budi Utomo)
Kingkin Puput Kinanti (IKIP Budi Utomo)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Jun 2022

Abstract

The objective of this study is to recognize errors in the sentence structure of students' paragraph writing tasks. Quantitative research is applied to find out what type of errors and frequent errors are made by students in writing English paragraphs. There were 20 students' paragraph writing analyzed on the aspect of the verb tenses, subject-verb agreement, articles, pronoun agreement, sentence fragments, and run-on sentences/ comma splices. The result showed that the total for all kinds of errors made by the students in this assignment of paragraph writing was 82 errors. The two frequent errors occur in verb tense (23%) and run-on sentences (27%).

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Journal Info

Abbrev

spectral

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Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other

Description

The scopes of the journal include the following topic areas: English Literature, Second Language Acquisition, Microlinguistics and Macrolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Literary Criticism, English Language Pedagogy, English Language Literacy, English for Specific Purposes, ELT Materials Development ...