Institutional Repository | Satya Wacana Christian University: Students’ Perceptions Towards Grammatical Error Corrections in Writing

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STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS GRAMMATICAL ERROR

CORRECTIONS IN WRITING

(Eveline Sylviani)

ABSTRACT

In learning a foreign language, students may make errors because the

grammatical rules of the first language are different from those of the foreign

language. Therefore, most teachers will provide error corrections on the students’

writing to help them imp

rove. However, teacher’s corrections have advantages or

disadvantages. With this in mind, this study investigated students’ perceptions

towards the advantages and disadvantages of grammatical error corrections in

writing. It was important to help the students to know the value of grammatical

corrections whether it gave them advantages or disadvantages. A total of 67

English Literature (EL) students in Integrated Course class participated in this

study. The data collection instrumentation used was a four-point Likert scale

questionnaire that consisted of 11 items in which the first seven items indicated

the advantages and the rest of the items indicated the disadvantages, and two open

questions were added in the questionnaires. The collected data was then analyzed

descriptively. The findings show that the students see the advantages of

grammatical feedback.

Key words:

perceptions, feedback on grammatical errors, advantages and

disadvantages