HOW ERRORS MADE IN ESSAY WRITING: AN ANALYSIS USING GRAMMARLY SOFTWARE IN EFL STUDENTS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24256/ideas.v9i1.1815Keywords:
Error, Grammarly, software, and writingAbstract
Errors in writing are naturally made in EFL teaching. This research aimed to find out the errors of correctness, clarity, engagement, delivery, and plagiarism in student essay writing using Grammarly Software in the third semester of English education. This research conducted at Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. The researcher used the descriptive quantitative method. The participants were 21 students from the third semester at English education of University Muhammadiyah of Makassar. The study took sample by apply purposive sampling. The instrument of this research is the students’ essay writing. The research results found 452 errors based on Grammarly software made by the third semester in English education at University Muhammadiyah of Makassar. Those errors can classify as follow: 73.5% errors of correctness, 17.5% errors of clarity, 7.7 % errors of engagement, 1.3% errors of delivery, and 0% errors of plagiarism.
References
Bungin. (2005). MetodePenelitianKuantitatif.Prenada Media Group. Jakarta.
Brown, H. Douglas, 2000. Principle of Language Learning and Teaching. New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc.
Canh, L. Van. (2016). Key issues in language teaching [Book Review]. English Australia Journal, 32(1), 113–116.
Fadhilah, U., Julia, H., & Saribu, D. (2019). Effectiveness of Grammarly Application for Writing English Abstract. 8(12), 163–166.
Hyland, K. (2003). Genre-based pedagogies: A social response to process. Journal of Second Language Writing, 12(1), 17–29. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1060-3743(02)00124-8
Karim, A., Mohamed, A. R., Ismail, S. A. M. M., Shahed, F. H., Rahman, M. M., & Haque, M. H. (2018). Error Analysis in EFL Writing Classroom. International Journal of English Linguistics, 8(4), 122.
Karyuatry, L. (2018). Grammarly as a Tool to Improve Students’ Writing Quality: Free Online-Proofreader across the Boundaries. JSSH (Jurnal Sains Sosial Dan Humaniora), 2(1), 83.
Khansir, A. A. (2012). Error analysis and second language acquisition. Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2(5), 1027–1032.
Ramli, D., Suhartono, L., & Novita, D. (2013). AN ANALYSIS ON THE STUDENTS’ERROR IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT. Jurnal Pendidikan Dan Pembelajaran Khatulistiwa, 2(2).
Saepuloh, A. (2018). Students’ Responses on the Use of Grammarly Application in an Efl Writing Class. The 1st International Conference on ELT (CONELT), 1(1), 1–5.
Vidhiasi, D. M., & Haryani, H. (2020). The Implementation of Grammarly In Error Analysis Implementasi Grammarly Dalam Error Analysis. Jurnal Sains Dan Teknologi Maritim, 21(1), 17.
Yulianti, E. (2018). Utilizing Grammarly in Teaching Writing Recount Text Through Genre Based Approach. International Journal of Science, Technology and Society, 6(1), 1.
Yuninan, E. D., & Isnani, Z. (2020). the Effectiveness of Spatial Order in Writing a Descriptive Text. E-Link Journal, 7(1), 1.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
Citation Check
License
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See the Effect of Open Access)
