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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis research is a study about grammatical errors. The main focus of the
study is concentrated on the errors found in English greeting cards composed and
produced in Indonesia. Grammar is an essential requirement toward a successful
result in learning any language, including English. People have to pay more
attention both to what they want to say and also how they are going to express
their ideas in writing. Grammatical error in writing may disturb the coherence of
the piece of writing. By using correct grammatical rule, writers will have good
writing. Yet, making errors cannot be avoided. Therefore, the writer is eager to
conduct a research on grammatical errors especially in English greeting cards
composed and produced in Indonesia. The writer limited the types of greeting
cards to Christmas cards (including New Year?s cards) and Valentine?s cards
only. The total number of the greeting cards is 50 greeting cards which consist of
25 greeting cards for each type. Also, the writer is curious to know about the
kinds of grammatical errors found in those greeting cards. Moreover, the writer
also wants to know about the most frequent type of errors found in those greeting
cards. Thus, to support this study theoretically, the writer used the theories of
errors and error analysis. The writer used the theories of errors by Corder, Ellis,
Dulay, and Richards, and the theories of error analysis by Dulay, Burt and
Krashen. The writer used descriptive qualitative approach since the writer did the
research with the data she found. While doing this, the writer also provided
correct forms for the error. After getting the data, the writer analyzed the errors
and classified them to omission, addition, misformation, misordering and
haphazard substitution erros. The writer found that each of 50 greeting cards has
an error. The writer also found that the most frequent type of errors found in both
Christmas cards and Valentine?s cards was the same, that is, omission error.
Finally, the writer concluded that there was quite a great deal of English greeting
cards in Indonesia that might consist of errors. As a result, the learner should be
more aware of choosing English greeting cards.