GRAMMAR’S ERROR AT FORMAL COMMUNICATION

Novi Dyah Arisanti

NIM: 113-14-037

People in this world need a way to convey their instruction to others. At first, it becomes

a problem. Communication is one of the ways that has been found by people to solve their

problems before. According to Canale (1983: 1-27), Reaching effectiveness in

communication needs communicative ability which is the mastery knowledge of language

and the competences apply the knowledge in real communication. Communication divides in

two conditions, formal and informal situation. Spoken and written are kinds of languages’

style to deliver the instruction. In this occasion, to understand others’ instruction and to make

language easy to use, communication need a standard.

As developing thought in human relation, languages as a tool of communication are

broaden. We can find so much languages that try spread their impact in all areas. English,

which becomes an International language also broaden. English also becomes the most

widely used language in the world. It becomes reason why people around the world try to

understand and learn English.

The rule of English calls Grammar. Grammar is a perfect way. Grammar at Oxford

English Dictionary is the whole system and structure of a language or of languages in

general, usually taken as consisting of syntax and morphology (including inflections) and

sometimes also phonology and semantics. Grammar in English has many things, such as part

of speech, and tenses. Both of them are supported each other and have a good relation to

deliver the instruction as meaning. Huddleston (1984: 90) says, “Most of the major language

group spoken today, notably the Indo-European languages and Semitic languages, use almost

the identical categories; Chinese, however has fewer parts of speech than English”.

According to Soanes and Stevenson (2009: 513), Part of speech is a class or division

which a word is allocated in a manner conforming its syntactic functions. The main parts of

speech are noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and

interjection. The part of speech also calls eight main word classes in English. The members

of part of speech combine to create a good sentence. For example: “My father was a pilot,

and we must book a ticket next week” (Oxford Guide to English Grammar, p: 11).

After talking about grammar, we back to our discussion before. As I said before, we

need a standard when we learn language. The standard is called a rule. However, when

people try to use and apply the rule, sometimes, something wrong happens. We need

grammar to support a good communication, but we can’t say that grammar is easy. We need

to learn grammar to communicate with others although when we do communication that we

need just to deliver our instruction. The fact in the daily life had been told us that grammar

make some people confused, especially when we do communication in the formal situation.

Every people have their own capacity. Not everybody can focus on two things in one

case. When we do communication in the formal usage, despite of transferring our ideas

clearly, we need to construct a good sentence and keep the rule. Here sometimes an error

happens. Henry and Roseberry (2007: 176), a violation of a productive rule of language is a

definition from grammar error, for example miss of an article or demonstrative preceding a

singular countable noun. To solve an error that happens on grammar at formal situation, it

will be better if we can learn about Interference. Interference becomes one of the most

discussion in this era. Krashen (1981: 7), states that “Interference is a result of the use of the

first language as an utterance initiator, first language competence may replace acquired

second language competence”.

WORDS: 616

REFERENCES:

Canale, M. (1983). From Communicative Competence to Communicative Language Pedagogy. London: Longman/ 1-27.

Eastwood, J. (2002). Oxford Guide to English Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Henry, A., & Roseberry, R. L. (2007). Language Errors in the Genre-based Writing ofAdvanced Academic ESL Students. RELC Journal, 38, 171-197.

Huddleston, R. (1984). Introduction to the Grammar of English. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

Krashen, D. S. (1981) Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning.

Southern California: Pergamon Press. Inc.

Soanes, Catherine and Angus Stevenson. (2009). New Oxford Dictionary of English. Oxford:

Oxford Univesity Press. (in text: Soanes and Stevenson)