Sentence Pattern and Grammatical Aspects in English Writing: A Comparative Syntactical Analysis of Two ESL Students’ Writings

Saifullah, Saifullah (2012) Sentence Pattern and Grammatical Aspects in English Writing: A Comparative Syntactical Analysis of Two ESL Students’ Writings. Jurnal Pasai, 6 (1). pp. 179-188. ISSN 1979-1755,

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Abstract

This paper describes how syntactical analysis of writing can be used by ESL teachers to assess students’ work in writing classroom. It investigates types of sentence, the way they are constructed and grammatical aspects of the sentences from two ESL students’ texts. The paper provides description of text samples and texts analysis both in quantitative and qualitatively approaches. In addition, the differences between two texts are described to demonstrate a comparative analysis. The discussion reveals that student at stage 2 demonstrates lower proficiency comparing to student at stage 4 in terms of sentence construction, S2 student constructs more simple sentences and S4 student uses more complex sentences. Additionally, S4 student shows a pattern in creating past perfect tense sentences and the pattern shown by S2 student is in “but” beginning-clauses. Some grammatical errors are also shown by both students.

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