An Analysis of Grammatical Errors in the Personal Letters Written by the Eleventh Graders of SMAN 10 Malang

ABSTRACTKhairunisa, Naima. 2017.An Analysis of Grammatical Errors in the PersonalLettersWritten by the Eleventh Graders of SMAN 10 Malang. Thesis,English Department, Faculty of Letters, State University of Malang.Advisors: (I) Drs. Andi MuhtarM.A, (II) Dr. E.D. Laksmi, M.Pd, M.AKeywords:error, grammar, personal lettersEnglish Curriculum2013in Indonesia, including for Senior HighSchool,expects the students to be able to use English for both spoken and written.However, some EFL studentsoften make errors in composing a written text becausethe lack of grammar competence. In order to write well, the students need to mastergrammar competence. Indonesian students often find difficulties in writing becausethe grammar rules between English and Indonesian language are different.This study aims to analyze the grammatical errors in the personal letterswritten by the eleventh graders of SMAN 10 Malang. The data was collected byasking the students to write a personal letter for their classmate.Then, the result oftheir writing was classified and analyzed usingSurface Strategy Taxonomyproposedby Dulay et al., 1982. Dulay et al. classified errors into four types that is omissionerrors, addition errors, misformation errors, and misordering errors. The result of thestudy is reported descriptively.From the result of the study, the errors occur as a result ofinterlinguall andintralinguall transfer. In interlinguall transfer, some students do direct translation fromIndonesian language to English language. In intralinguall transfer, the students cannotapply the English grammar rules correctly. In this case, the student usesarein everyinterrogative sentence.After analyzing and classifying the data, there are 225 errors that are found inthestudents’ writing. The highest frequent error is misformation errors (43.5%). Theerror of omission occurs 42.2% in the data analysis. The third is error of addition thatreaches 11.1%. The least occurring error is error of misordering (3.2%).Based on theresult of the study, the researcher suggests that English teachersuse more suitable method in teaching grammar. One way to apply the rules in Englishgrammar is by asking the students to write journal. By doing so, the students havetime to apply the grammar rules that have been discussed. Then, the teacher discusses the work together with the studentsABSTRAK Khairunisa, Naima. 2017. An Analysis of Grammatical Errors in the Personal LettersWritten by the Eleventh Graders of SMAN 10 Malang . Thesis, English Department, Faculty of Letters, State University of Malang. Advisors: (I) Drs. Andi Muhtar M.A, (II) Dr. E.D. Laksmi, M.Pd, M.A Keywords: error, grammar, personal letters English C urriculum 2013 in Indonesia , including for Senior High Sc hool ,expects the students to be able to use English for both spoken and written. However, some EFL students often make errors in composing a written text because the lack of grammar competence. In order to write well, the students need to master grammar competence . Indonesian students often find difficulties in writing because the grammar rules between English a nd Indonesian language are different. This study aims to analyze the grammatical errors in the personal letters written by the eleventh graders of SMAN 10 Malang. The data was collected by asking the students to write a personal letter for their classmate. Then, the result of their writing was classified and analyzed using Surface Strategy Taxonomy proposed by Dulay et al., 1982. Dulay et al. classified errors into four types that is omission errors, addition errors, misformation errors, and misordering err ors. The result of the study is reported descriptively. From the result of the study, the errors occur as a result ofinterlinguall and intralinguall transfer. In interlinguall transfer, some students do direct translation from Indonesian language to Englis h language. In intralinguall transfer, the students cannot apply the English grammar rules correctly. In this case, the student uses are in every interrogative sentence. After analyzing and classifying the data, there are 225 errors that are found in the students’ writing. The highest frequent error is misformation errors (43.5%). The error of omission occurs 42.2% in the data analysis. The third is error of addition that reaches 11.1%. The least occurring error is error of misordering (3.2%). Based on the result of the study, the researcher suggests that English teachers use more suitable method in teaching grammar. One way to apply the rules in English grammar is by asking the students to write journal. By doing so, the students have time to apply the gra mmar rules that have been discussed. Then, the teacher discusses the work together with the students