AN ANALYSIS OF SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN WRITING SIMPLE SENTENCE USING GERUND AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY

YONDA, PRIMA and Lailatul, Husna and Ernati, Ernati (2016) AN ANALYSIS OF SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN WRITING SIMPLE SENTENCE USING GERUND AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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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 (see Appendix 7). 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 (see Appendix13). It showed misformation errors are made by most students. In specific, the students made errors in writing simple sentence using gerund as subject and as direct object. In gerund as subject, there were 51 (42%) errors in omission, 38 (30%) errors in addition, 33 (27%) errors in misformation, and 1 (1%) error in misordering (see Appendix 9). On the other hand, in gerund as direct object there were 41 (28%) errors in omission, 39 (26%) errors in addition, 63 (43%) errors in misformation, and 5 (3%) errors in misordering (see Appendix 11). By having known students grammatical errors in writing simple sentence usin 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 iv 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.

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