An Analysis of Students’ Grammatical Errors in Arranging Jumbled Words into Meaningful Sentences of the Einght Grade at SMP Negeri 4 Banyuwangi in the Academic Year 2016/2017

Abstract

Writing cannot be separated from sentences. Constructing sentences is a
start to write a composition since it has levels of difficulties starting from words
to sentences, sentences to paragraph and paragraph to longer composition.
Jumbled words is a method of teaching. There are some words or sentences
which are jumbled by teacher and the students must arrange them into
correct sentences. This research is a descriptive quantitative one that focused
on the data analysis with form description with the scoring of the eight grade
students’ grammatical errors in arranging jumbled words into meaningful
sentences at SMP Negeri 4
Banyuwangi in the Academic Year 2016/2017. Purposive method was used to
determine the research area. The number of respondent were 30 students.
The result of the data analysis showed that compose sentences was difficult
for the eight year students of SMP Negeri 4 Banyuwangi. (1) There are 126
miordering of using adjective followed by noun with the percentage 23,37%.
(2) There are 46 misordering of using verb followed by
adverb with the percentage 8,53%. (3) There are 98 misordering of using
auxiliary verb ( do, do es and did )
with the percentage 18,18%, (4) There are 95 misordering of using to be past
tense (was and were) with the percentage 17,62%. (5) There are75
misordering of using Simple Present Tense with the percentage 13,91%. (6)
There are 99 misordering of using Simple Past Tense with the percentage
18,36%