This research found that students should be given intensive practice in using the gerund in writing. Gerund is one of the components of a grammar, gerund is something that students have learned. Without learning the gerund in grammar, students will be misunderstood in their use of spoken and written English.
The students tend to think about a –ing form in gerund is a tense use of present continuous tense. In this case, most of the students have not yet realized the importance of gerund function in English language. By analyzing the students' error of gerund, the author wants to know how far the comprehensibility of English students of the fifth semester at the Muhammadiyah University of Makassar.
Based on the above background, the researcher plans to analyze students' errors in the use of gerund. Dominant error in gerund use made by fifth semester English students at Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. For students and learners, this research is expected to increase the achievement of students and learners in learning English.
These study cases of the fifth semester English students at Muhammadiyah University of Makassar.
INTRODUCTION
- Background
- Problem Statement
- Objective of the Study
- Significances of the Study
- Scope of the Study
The purpose of this research is to describe the students' error in the use of gerund. The following table shows the total number of students' errors in the use of the gerund in writing. First, the researcher classified gerund usage error based on gerund types.
This study revealed that students made many errors in the use of gerunds in the written exam. Second, the researcher identified students' errors in the use of gerunds in their test. Finally, the researcher determined the predominance of the error based on the result of the classification of students' errors in the use of the gerund in the test.
The researcher concluded that most errors were in the use of gerund after preposition. Because on this category there were 53% errors that students made in the use of gerunds in writing.
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Previous Related Research Findings
Sopin (2015) concluded that it is important for teachers to be aware of their students' beliefs regarding the role of grammar instruction. This does not mean that teachers must necessarily teach grammar if their students require it, but rather that teachers can become more aware of the kinds of learning techniques that students are used to and prefer, and how these ideas mesh with their own. To become aware of each other's beliefs about the roles of grammar instruction and error correction, it can be beneficial for students and teachers to initiate dialogues such as those that occurred during this study.
Based on the above explanation, the researcher can conclude that the same -ing form can confuse the learner as to how and where the gerund should be used correctly, but the weight that the mistake is not such a big mistake is also very important. motivating. Positive error correction can represent a kind of motivation in the process of learning a foreign language, and with a descriptive qualitative method, the researcher wants to analyze the ability of English students to use gerunds in writing.
Error Analysis
Making mistakes is a sign that students have not mastered the rules of the language they are learning. These mistakes occur during the student's study because they have not received enough knowledge. Richards in Ramadhan said that intra-linguistic or developmental errors reflect the learner's competence at a particular stage and illustrate some of the general characteristics of language acquisition.
Overgeneralization is a negative intralinguistic error that deals with subjects that are contrastive in the grammar of languages. In this case, they should reduce the 'to' in the sentence "he asked me" because he applied the same preposition to different verbs. This type is sometimes called semantic error, which may be derived from misunderstanding the distinction in the target language.
Learners in the early stages of learning tend to omit function words rather than content words. In language teaching, either a mother tongue or a second language teaching, examining students' mistakes is very important.
Grammar
On the other hand, if someone does not know the grammar, he/she will not be able to speak that language, or the listeners will be confused in catching the message, so they will never be able to communicate with each other. In other words, without knowing the grammar of the language, one cannot be said to have learned the language, and without learning grammar it seems impossible to learn a language, since the grammar tells about the use of the language. From the above explanation it is clear that grammar is very essential and important and it cannot be separated from language either.
Elbow in Louis (2016:7) said that grammar interferes with writing: “Learning grammar is a formidable task that takes crucial energy away from working on your writing, and worse, the process of learning grammar interferes with write to most people and nothing helps. their writing so much as to ignore grammar.”
Gerund
20 Postpone Let's postpone going until tomorrow 21 Exercise The athlete practiced throwing the ball 22 He gave up trying to solve the problem 23 Recall I don't remember meeting him before 24 I remember I don't remember meeting him before 25 She recommended that he recommend watching the play 26 I regret, I regret telling him my secret. Swan in Firdaus (2013:23) stated that the gerund is used after all prepositions (including when "it" is a preposition).. 3) I look forward to your reply.
Conceptual Framework
There were two tests to know students' ability in using gerund in this research, they are completion test and translation test. After collecting the data from the tests, the researcher analyzed the gerund usage errors made by the students in their writing. The population of this research was the fifth semester students of the English department at Muhammadiyah University of Makassar, which consisted of 10 classes and the total number of students is 387.
The instrument of this research that I used was the test that was given to the students to know the students' error in the use of the gerund. The findings of the research showed the data obtained from the result to see the mistakes made by the fifth semester students of English department in the use of gerund in writing. From the table above it showed that there were 366 mistakes made by the VD class in using the gerund in writing.
In this section, the researcher classified the total number of errors the researcher found from the students' test in the use of gerund. The researcher concluded that misinformation is the predominant type of error in the use of gerund in writing made by the fifth semester students of the English department at the Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. As mentioned in the previous chapter, the data sources of this study are the students' test in the use of gerund.
It made the students not really understand the spelling in English, especially the usage of gerund. As a first step to analyzing the errors, the researcher identified all the errors the students had made when using gerund in their test. It usually happens in the usage of gerund after preposition made by class VD of the fifth semester English students at Muhammadiyah University of Makassar.
In the findings, I calculated that the percentage of each type of error found from the students' test resulted in the use of gerunds. Error analysis on the students' mastery on the use of Gerund, after infinitive and infinitive without. HR: make planning is next step to Appendix D.Total From the Error's answer of the Students.
RESEARCH METHOD
Research Design
In this research, I administered tests to the fifth semester students of the English Department of the Muhammadiyah University of Makassar.
Population and Sample
- List of Verbs Frequently Followed by Gerund
- Population of the Research
- The Criteria of Kinds of Errors
- Total Identification of the Students’ Errors
- The Result of Students Error based on the Kinds of Gerund
- Types and Number of Error
The result of all tests showed that the comprehensibility of the gerund in the third grade in high school is very poor. After identifying the errors based on the types of gerund, the researcher found that there were 74 errors in the use of gerund as a subject, 103 errors in the use of gerund as an object, and 189 errors in the use of gerund after preposition. In the results, the underlined words are incorrect because the students did not fully understand the structure of gerunds.
The percentage score from each type of errors based on the table of findings, the omission error category had 36%, the addition category error had 4%, the misinformation category had 53%, the misorder category had only 7%. Based on the table. in the findings, the researcher concluded that misinformation was a dominant mistake made by the fifth semester of English department at Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. In this test, students are asked to choose the correct words in the box and then fill in the blanks in the sentences (numbers 1-10).
