Elaboration on Grammatical Errors of Descriptive Text by EFL Learners

Abstract

The research was conducted to know and to sort the kinds of grammatical errors in text made by the participants in descriptive genre. The error classifications followed the concept of Corder. Designed as qualitative study, the study took the second term learners of study program in English education at Hamzanwadi University which consisted 35 as the participants. Data was obtained from subjective examination in the form of descriptive text. The data analysis result described that learners’ errors were divided into four categories: omission, addition, selection, and ordering. From the persistent of every error kinds, selection turned out to be the most often made by the participants (57.9%). Furthermore, 30.30% errors were found as omission and 12.9 % errors were grouped into addition; while, misordering just cover 17.4 %.