{"title":"An Analysis on Students’ Errors in Writing Sentence Patterns","authors":"Nurmala Hendrawati","doi":"10.32678/LOQUEN.V11I01.1036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32678/LOQUEN.V11I01.1036","url":null,"abstract":"Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences are sentence patterns which each sentence has different pattern, and it is strongly related to grammatical structure, punctuation marks, and connectors. Due to the complexity, EFL learners often get difficulties in understanding and writing the four sentence patterns. Therefore, the objectives of the research are to classify each type of errors and find out the most and least frequently errors of sentence patterns made by students then identify the occurrence frequency of the errors. This is a descriptive qualitative employed by 30 students from the third semester taking Basic Writing, academic year 2017-2018, at Indraprasta PGRI University. This research concerns on surface strategy taxonomy that analyzes four errors. The results show the errors from the highest to the lowest percentage: misformation (57.6%), omission (27.47%), addition (8.8%), and misordering (6.13%). Dealing with sentence patterns, compound-complex sentence becomes the most difficult sentence pattern writing because the most frequently errors made by students are 44.54%. The second is compound sentence with errors 23.2%. Then followed by complex sentence with the number of errors is 22.13%. The least frequently errors of sentence patterns made by students are simple sentence with errors 10.13%. The occurrence of mistake is from the pattern of compound-complex sentence that is the most complicated of three other sentence patterns. The conclusion is regularization in misformation is the most frequently error made by students which cause is from poor understanding of grammatical structure. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":278118,"journal":{"name":"Loquen: English Studies Journal","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133081457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fostering Students’ Writing Skill through Peer Feedback Activity: A Case Study at UIN SMH Banten","authors":"Ila Amalia","doi":"10.32678/LOQUEN.V11I01.1031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32678/LOQUEN.V11I01.1031","url":null,"abstract":"Students typically want their texts to be read, and in the classroom feedback from other student provides opportunities for them to see how others respond to their work and to learn from these responses. Since feedback is an important element in the process of writing, teacher must facilitate this kind of feedback to foster students’ writing skill. The present study concerned with the practice of peer feedback in the writing instruction, especially in writing an essay. More specifically this study investigated how peer feedback implemented in the classroom and how it influenced the students’ writing skill. The data were collected using two instruments, they were writing test and observation (using peer feedback format). From the result, it was found that students had gained more knowledge on the aspects of writing an essay and had made improvement on their writing skills especially in making the essay.","PeriodicalId":278118,"journal":{"name":"Loquen: English Studies Journal","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126860932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Literacy Based Instructional Reading Materials","authors":"T. Rohadi","doi":"10.32678/loquen.v11i01.1030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32678/loquen.v11i01.1030","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT \u0000The study aims at developing and producing a set of instructional materials used as a model of teaching/learning materials of critical reading. The model is developed through stages and procedures of research and development methods. The results of the study show that; a) the existing instructional materials in certain extent referring to students’ and lecturers incompatibility requires variation in terms of new reading approach, skills to be trained, and types of activities; b) the type of critical reading to be developed is critical literacy; c) the models resulted from the study are theoretically and practically eligible and feasible in accordance to a panel of expert judgement; d) the models are empirically proven effective to improve student's skills in reading critically; e) the final models comprise of students learning materials, teachers guidance/manual, and some supporting materials. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":278118,"journal":{"name":"Loquen: English Studies Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117078465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}