Journal Analysis

Title

INTER LANGUAGE: GRAMMATICAL ERRORS ON STUDENTS’ RECOUNT TEXT (A Case Study of First Year of MAN 2 Banjar Negara in the Academic Year 20014/20015)

Topic

Grammatical Errors

Author’s Name

Isti Nurhayati

Institution

English Department. Faculty of Language and Arts. State University of Semarang

Abstract

General introduction:

Dissimilarities between Indonesian and English language burden Indonesia students to learn English especially in terms of grammar. Those grammatical errors are made by the students when they build a. However, such kind of errors are still natural because they are still in a developmental stage to gain English competence. In fact, teachers can utilize the errors as valuable input to assist them solving student’s problems in grammar.

Purpose:

This study aims to find out the grammatical errors that student make in writing recount text and the inter language process happen in it.

Technical:

The collecting data was done through writing recount text task to get kinds of errors data made by the students

How to analyze:

The analysis steps started from identifying the errors, categorizing them into four categorizations of errors, and calculating the errors with other supporting data.

Result:

Kinds of grammatical errors are done by the students: omission, addition, misinformation, misordering.

The interlanguage process:

Systematicity, permeability, fossilization consisting of language faster, faster of training, strategy of second language learning and overgeneralization. 

Introduction

The Fact:

One of the challenges faced by Indonesian students in learning English as a foreign language is ‘grammar.

The Theory:

Flynn (1995), for example, states that language learners have some grammar, before they begin learning their second language which may not have any bearing on their prior linguistic knowledge.

The Gap:

Little is known about kind of grammar errors and interlanguage process of first year’s students at MAN 2 Banjar Negara. Therefore, this study is important to be conducted as those errors can become the source for studying of the system of the learners’ L2 or interlanguage IL.

Research Methodology

Research design: Case study 

Research area: MAN 2 Banjar Negara

Research participants: 33 first year students of MAN 2 Banjar Negara

Research data: Students’ recount text

Result

1. Omission

2. Addition

3. Misinformation

4. Misordering

The interlanguage process is systematicity, permeability, fossilization consisting of language transfer, transfer of training, strategy of second language learning, overgeneralization.

Conclusion

Based on the result and discussion related to the grammatical errors which the students of X7 MAN 2 Banjar Negara made, it is concluded that there are several conclusions; omission in all of the grammatical features aspects of recount text, addition in all of the grammatical features aspects of recount text, Addition in all of the grammatical features aspects of recount text, Misordeiring of all of the grammatical features aspects of recount text. The interlanguage process happens to the student during writing recount text are systematicity, permeability, language of transfer, transfer of training, strategy of second language learning, overgeneralization

Suggestion

Based on the conclusions of the result of the study, the writer recommended some suggestions to solve the errors made by the students and the interlanguage process. Those  happened to the students, among others were the teacher should analyze the errors made by the students to know what the students need, the students should find their strategies in learning English that can develop the four skills of English, the school should provide the facility that supports the English learning process especially in developing the students’ English skill and For future researchers who wants to resolve the problems of kinds of grammatical errors and interlanguage can use the result of this study as the background to decide the best method in learning English.