Common Grammatical Errors in Oral Communication Made by Indonesian EFL Learners

Najla, Nurillah. (2021) Common Grammatical Errors in Oral Communication Made by Indonesian EFL Learners. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Negeri Padang.

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Abstract

Speaking in English with appropriate and correct grammar is still difficult for EFL learners who are not accustomed in using English than their first or second language. It causes the students produced grammatical errors in speaking. The purposes of this research are to identify and classify the type of errors in students' speaking performance based on linguistic category in morphological and syntactical level, and to find out the causes of EFL learners make grammatical errors based on intralingual aspect. The research design was qualitative descriptive research. The sources of this research data is from students' voice recordings when the researcher interviewed them one by one. The participant of this research was thirty second year students majoring English in Universitas Negeri Padang who enrolled in 2019. The interview was used to collect the data, and the data were analyzed by using Linguistic Category Classification from Politzer and Ramirez. Based on the result of data analysis, 16 kinds of grammatical errors were found. The dominant kind of grammatical error which found in EFL learners' speaking was simple past tense. Then, for the causes of EFL learners' error in intralingual transfer aspect based on James theory was incomplete rule application, overlooking co-occurrences restriction, overgeneralization, and exploiting redundancy.

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