Elaboration on Grammatical Errors of Descriptive Text by EFL Learners

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10.2991/assehr.k.210618.021How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Error analysis, descriptive text

Abstract

The research was conducted to know and to sort the kinds of grammatical errors in text made by the participants in descriptive genre. The error classifications followed the concept of Corder. Designed as qualitative study, the study took the second term learners of study program in English education at Hamzanwadi University which consisted 35 as the participants. Data was obtained from subjective examination in the form of descriptive text. The data analysis result described that learners’ errors were divided into four categories: omission, addition, selection, and ordering. From the persistent of every error kinds, selection turned out to be the most often made by the participants (57.9%). Furthermore, 30.30% errors were found as omission and 12.9 % errors were grouped into addition; while, misordering just cover 17.4 %.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ari Prasetyaningrum
AU  - Maman Asrobi
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/06/21
TI  - Elaboration on Grammatical Errors of Descriptive Text by EFL Learners
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Progress in Social Science, Humanities and Education Research Symposium (PSSHERS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 98
EP  - 102
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210618.021
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210618.021
ID  - Prasetyaningrum2021
ER  -