AN ANALYSIS OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN WRITING SIMPLE SENTENCE USING GERUND AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY
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Abstract
The purpose of this research was to describe the second year students’ grammatical errors in writing simple sentence using gerund. This research was limited into two forms of gerund: gerund as subject and direct object.Descriptive method was used as the design of this research. The population of this research was the second year students of English Department of Bung Hatta University Academic Year 2015/2016. The number of population is 46 students. There are 22 students in class A and 24 students in class B. The researcher used cluster random sampling to select the sample and the total number of sample was 24 students (class B). To make test became reliable, the researcher used inter-rater technique. The result showed that the test was reliable. It is supported by the fact that the result of coefficient correlation is .99. It was categorized as very high correlation. Then, the test was valid in term of content validity because it had covered all material which students had learnt. Generally, the result of analyzing the data showed that the students made grammatical errors in writing simple sentence using gerund. It could be seen that there were 92 (34%) omission errors, 77 (28%) addition errors, 97 (36%) misformation errors, and 6 (2%) misordering errors. It showed misformation errors are made by most students.. By having known students grammatical errors in writing simple sentence using gerund, the researcher gives suggestions to lecturers, the students and the further researcher. The lecturers are suggested to explain and give more exercises about the formation of gerund, because based on finding most errors made by the students are misformation . The students are suggested to study harder and learn more about simple sentence and gerund, especially to improve their understanding about writing simple sentence and gerund. The further researchers are expected to find out and analyze the factors which cause the students’ errors in writing simple sentence using gerund.
Key words: Ability, Grammatical Error, Simple Sentence, Gerund