A Grammatical Error Analysis in The Narrative Writing of the Third Semester of Pamulang University

Abstract

The study was conducted to find some accurate data. The researcher did some analysis through some assignments. The purposed assignment is in a form of a narrative text. It is in line with the goal of the study that the aim of the research is to explore on taxonomy of grammatical errors that were made by university students in their writing tasks. A narrative writing assignment is given as a tool to measure the students’ taxonomy of grammatical errors. The research was conducted at Pamulang University. It is a grammar class that consisted of more than 30 students with different levels of grammar proficiency. However, the participant just involved 10 students who were chosen intentionally based on their previous score in their grammar subject. A qualitative study that focuses on a case study in this study was used. There are two instruments in this study. They are stimulated to recall interviews and students’ narrative tasks. Those instruments will be used as a tool to get a piece of clear information about students’ grammatical errors in their narrative assignments. The students were asked to be involved in an initial interview. Here the students were asked about their awareness of grammatical errors and narrative tasks. Next, they were asked to write a narrative task. The study started here. The researcher started analyzing the data. Finally, the participants were asked to be involved in a final interview about what they felt and their experience of their narrative assignment.