Analysis of Students’ Grammatical Error in Writing Invitation Card at Second Grade of MTSN 1 Bukittinggi

Abstract

The purpose of this research was know about students’ grammatical errors. In this research, the researcher r used quantitative research methods with class VIII as the research population. The research sample was 36 students who were selected through purposive sampling technique. Data collection was carried out through tests and questionnaires. Test, used to answer the kind of students’ grammatical error and most common of grammatical error in writing invitation card. Questionnaire was used to know the causes of students grammatical error in writing invitation card. In the writing test, the researcher asked the students’  to write an invitation card with two topics. In addition, for questionnaire there were 10 questions with 2 answer options.

The results of this research showed that there were 159 errors from 36 students. There were 4 kind of grammatical error such as omission, addition, misinformation and misordering. Therefore, the most common errors in student grammar errors was omission which students omit something that should appear in the sentence with a percentage of 62.90%. morever, the cause of grammatical error are  devided into interlingual error and intralingual error. first error based on interlingual error or developmental error was caused by difficulty of the target language, 52.78% of students made error because they did not consider grammar when they wrote. The second errors were intralingual, 58.33% of students made error because they were still hesitant in using “to be” when they wrote. Then, 61.11% of students made error because they often forgot to add “s / es” to the verb in the simple present sentence when writing the invitation card. It showed that most of students did grammatical error were caused they didn’t know the rules of grammar itself.