Syntactical Analysis of Students’ Writing Paper

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10.2991/assehr.k.211130.077How to use a DOI?

Keywords

syntax; grammar; writing

Abstract

English has been studied for many years and it is very important to know syntactical errors produced because it gives the information about the factor affect the language errors and helps to improve teaching and learning strategies for the English language. This study aimed to investigate the syntactical ability in writing English text. 25 students were the participants of the study namely students of the third and fifth semester of the English Education Department in Musamus University. This study is a mix-method. Quantitative was used to see the percentage of grade error committed by students after that conclude quantitatively. The focuses of syntactical analysis were noun, verb, adjective, auxiliary, determiner, noun phrase, verb phrase, dan the students’ ability in making tree diagram. Based on the result, most students can decide the word class but in phrase term, most of the students are still confused to differentiate between a noun phrase and adjective phrase. Moreover, most students still difficulty in making tree diagrams in syntactical analysis.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Seli Marlina Raja Leba
AU  - Rezky Uspayanti
AU  - Ranta Butarbutar
AU  - Marni Bawawa
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/03
TI  - Syntactical Analysis of Students’ Writing Paper
BT  - Proceedings of the International Joined Conference on Social Science (ICSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 427
EP  - 430
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211130.077
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211130.077
ID  - Leba2021
ER  -