THE UNGRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH WRITING: ANALYSISONTYPES AND CAUSES

Abstract: The present research is about analysis on ungrammatical constructions encountered in the texts written by Senior High School students. The objective of the  study  is  to  describe  the  ungrammatical  constructions  in  clauses  and  phrases. The method of research is descriptive. The research participants were 28 students of  Year-XI  of  “SMAN  1  Nanga  MerakaiSintang”  in  Academic  Year  2013/2014. The  data  were  collected  from  corpus  written  by  the  students.  The  students  were still  weak  at  writing  texts.  The  grammatical  constructions  were  19  (13.77%)  and 119 (86.23%) not. The grammatical problems concern the phrasal and the clausal construction. That was 55.47% of the ungrammatical phrases have been made by the  students.  The  other  44.53%  ungrammatical  constructions  were  at  clauses.  There  was  53%  of  interlingual  problem  made  by  the  students.  The  errors  were Omission of “to be”, Noun phrase and Preposition phrase and 47% of intralingual errors.
Keywords: ungrammatical construction, Types, Causes
Author: Cenderato, Sudarsono, Y. Gatot Sutapa, Y
Journal Code: jppendidikangg140135

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