An Analysis Of Grammatical Errors Of Second Semester Students’ Writing Texts Of English Department, Faculty Of Letters, UKI

The research is based on the analysis of grammatical errors of the second semester students’ writing texts. The students make grammatical errors in their writing texts. The research intends to find out the types of grammatical errors that the students make in their writing texts. The research uses a qualitative research because the study is intended to discover the phenomenon that exists in students’ writing texts that are the errors in grammatical rules. The techniques of collecting data are collecting, reading, selecting, classifying, and analyzing the four writing texts. The result of the research shows that the grammatical errors that are made by the second semester’s students are the subject-verb agreement, tense, the word order/function and the sentence construction. The result of the research also shows that the students make the grammatical errors which are the word order/ function and the sentence construction the most. The casual factors of errors in their writing texts are: (1) They lack of understanding the grammatical rules of English, (2) They are confused to determine the singular and plural forms, (3) They are in doubt about tenses, so they only predicate the tense usage, (4) They feel confused to use the tenses, (5) They are in doubt about tenses because they never found them in Indonesian, (6) They feel it’s difficult to study tenses because the patterns of tenses are very complex, (7) They lack of vocabulary mastery, so they have a problem to develop sentences, (8) They feel confused to use the correct agreement between a subject and a verb because of lack of knowledge about it. (9) When they write English composition, they never revise or edit their works. Keywords: error analysis, grammatical errors, casual factor