Skripsi

Grammatical problems in English compositions made by seventh and eighth graders of SMP Negeri 13 Malang / Ellyzah Rizqi Amaliyah

Abstrak
ABSTRACT Amaliyah Ellyzah Rizqi. 2009. Grammatical Problems in English Compositions Made by the 7th and 8th Graders of SMP Negeri 13 Malang. Thesis Undergraduate Study Program of English Language Education Faculty of Letters State University of Malang. Advisor Dr. Arwijati W. Murdibjono M.Pd Keywords grammatical problems compositions Grammatical competence is one of the four components of communicative competence beside sociolinguistic discourse and strategic competence. It refers to the degree to which the language user has mastered the linguistic code which includes knowledge of vocabulary rules of pronunciation and spelling word formation and sentence structure. This study is intended to find out students grammatical problems in writing compositions made by seventh and eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 13 Malang.The focus of this study was identifying describing and classifying morphological and syntactical problems in students writing. Therefore descriptive qualitative was considered appropriate as the design of the study. The subjects were 38 seventh grade students and 42 students of eighth graders. The instrument used to collect the data was the students writing assignments in the second semester of 2008-2009 academic year. The problems found in the students compositions were classified based on linguistic category into morphological and syntactical problems. The result shows that there are 362 problems found from 65 compositions made by seventh graders and 837 problems found from 118 compositions made by eighth graders. The grammatical problems found in the seventh graders compositions are simple past tense followed by problems in preposition to be pronouns determiners nominalization numbers definite article main verb third person singular verb indefinite article first person singular verb word order possessive adverb verb-and-verb construction noun conjunction transformation present perfect tense adjective preference past participle comparative adjective/adverb and word formation. The grammatical problems found in the 8th graders compositions were simple past tense third person singular verb to be definite article preposition definite article numbers pronouns passive voice transformation determiners direct speech past participle possessive main verb word order adverb nominalization conjunction modal and adjective phrase. The study reveals that the seventh and eighth graders of SMP Negeri 13 Malang still have problems in applying English sentence structure. Based on the findings some suggestions are given to the English teachers the students and the next researchers. The English grammar teachers are expected to give more attention and find some solutions dealing with students problems. For the students they are expected to learn and familiarize themselves with English structures and also pay more attention to the use of English grammar in order to improve their English ability. Finally for the future researchers are expected to conduct research in eliciting other problems of students from different grade.

Informasi Detail

DDC

Rs 808.042 AMA g

Prodi

Universitas Negeri Malang. Program Studi Bahasa Inggris, 2009.

Deskripsi Fisik

ix, 93 + [49] lembar : il. : tab. ; 30 cm.

Bahasa

No Reg

03169/KI/09

Edisi

Skripsi (Sarjana)--Universitas Negeri Malang. 2009

Subjek

1. BAHASA INGGRIS - MENULIS - KESALAHAN GRAMATIKA

Pembimbing

1. ARWIJATI WAHJUDI MURDIBJONO

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