AN ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN STUDENTS’ ESSAY OF PAST NARRATION COMIC
Evlin Yunanda Salim
Abstract
This study aimed to analyze the types of grammatical errors found in the Guided Writing students’ essay of past narration comic. The data were collected from 17 essays. In analyzing the data, I used steps proposed by Corder (1974) in Ellis and Barkhuizen (2005). A native speaker lecture helped identify the grammatical errors in the students’ essay. Based on the identification of errors, each category of errors was counted to find the types of grammatical errors using formula P
Σ 100%P=percentage, n1=total of the errors, ΣN=total of the
whole errors. Each categories of error was explained and discussed. The result of the study show that English tenses (181 errors or 24.89%) were found to be the most common grammatical errors followed by errors in word choice (125 errors or 17.19%), punctuations (118 errors or 16.23%), subject-verb agreements (73 errors or 10.04%), prepositions (66 errors or 9.07%), articles (54 errors or 7.42%), singular/plurals (48 errors or 6.60%), pronoun (35 errors or 4.81%), and spellings (27 errors or 3.71%). This research concluded by discussing the pedagogical implication.