{"title":"AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ GRAMMATICAL ERROR IN WRITING PERSONAL LETTER","authors":"D. Sartika, Inka Sundari, Ratna Nery","doi":"10.24235/eltecho.v6i2.9346","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to find out grammatical errors in writing personal letters and the most grammatical errors made by the eleventh graders of SMA Negeri 5 Ogan Komering Ilir. This study used descriptive qualitative research method. The subject of the study was the eleventh social one students of SMA Negeri 5 Ogan Komering Ilir in the academic year of 2020/2021. The technique of collecting the data was a writing test using google form. To check the validity and reliability of the test, a triangulation method was applied. The information was presented in a descriptive manner and assessed using a percentage calculation. The calculations presented that the students made 12.5% sentence pattern errors, 24.1% tense errors, 9.17% pronoun errors, 2.5% preposition errors, 20% punctuation errors, and 31.66% spelling errors.The most dominant grammatical errors made by students was error of spelling (31.66%).","PeriodicalId":32853,"journal":{"name":"ELT Echo The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ELT Echo The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.24235/eltecho.v6i2.9346","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study aimed to find out grammatical errors in writing personal letters and the most grammatical errors made by the eleventh graders of SMA Negeri 5 Ogan Komering Ilir. This study used descriptive qualitative research method. The subject of the study was the eleventh social one students of SMA Negeri 5 Ogan Komering Ilir in the academic year of 2020/2021. The technique of collecting the data was a writing test using google form. To check the validity and reliability of the test, a triangulation method was applied. The information was presented in a descriptive manner and assessed using a percentage calculation. The calculations presented that the students made 12.5% sentence pattern errors, 24.1% tense errors, 9.17% pronoun errors, 2.5% preposition errors, 20% punctuation errors, and 31.66% spelling errors.The most dominant grammatical errors made by students was error of spelling (31.66%).