THE CONTRIBUTION OF ENGLISH SPELLING AND GRAM

MAR CHECKER TO STUDENTS WRITING ESSAY AT FOUR-S

MESTER STUDENT OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROG
RAM IN UNIVERSITY OF UMB

A Research proposal by
M.Alkamillah
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDY PROGRAM

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF BENGKULU
2017
Chapter I Chapter II

Research Objective of
Background
Question The Research

Limitation of Significant Of Definition Of

The Research The Research Key Terms
Background Chapter I

Writing skill
English grammar and spelling Checker in writin
g
Research Question Chapter I

What are the contributions of English spelling and

grammar checker in students writing essay?

The Objective Of The
Chapter I
Research
The purpose of this study is to describe the contrib

utions of English spelling and grammar checker

in students essay writing

Limitation Of The
Chapter I

Research
This research will focus on how the student used
the Microsoft office grammar checker and spelling
checker in editing their essay by comparing the
same essay with and without using the spelling an
d grammar checker.
Significant Of The
Chapter I

Research
1. For the English Student
2. For The English Lecturers
3. For the next Researchers
Definition Of Key Terms Chapter I

1. Contribution
2. Spelling Checker
3. Grammar Checker
4. Essay
Chapter II Chapter III

1. Definition Of Writing
2. Definition Of essay
3. English Grammar And Spelling Checker

Next
Check box Description
Capitalization Capitalization problems, such as proper nouns ("Mr. jones" should be "Mr. Jones") or titles that precede
proper nouns ("aunt Helen" should be "Aunt Helen"). Also detects overuse of capitalization.

Fragments and run-ons Sentence fragments and run-on sentences.

Misused words Incorrect use of adjectives and adverbs, comparatives and superlatives, "like" as a conjunction, "nor" versus
"or," "what" versus "which," "who" versus "whom," units of measurement, conjunctions, prepositions, and
pronouns.

Negation Use of multiple negatives.

Noun phrases Incorrect noun phrases; a/an misuse; number agreement problems in noun phrases ("five machine" instead of
"five machines").

Possessives and plurals Use of a possessive in place of a plural, and vice versa. Also detects omitted apostrophes in possessives.

Punctuation Incorrect punctuation, including commas, colons, end-of-sentence punctuation, punctuation in quotations,
multiple spaces between words, or a semicolon used in place of a comma or colon.

Questions Nonstandard questions such as, "He asked if there was any coffee left?", "Which makes an offer a good
solution?", and "She asked did you go after all?".

Relative clauses Incorrect use of relative pronouns and punctuation, including "who" used in place of "which" to refer to
things, "which" used in place of "who" to refer to people, unnecessary use of "that" with "whatever" and
"whichever," or "that's" used in place of "whose."

Subject-verb agreement Disagreement between the subject and its verb, including subject-verb agreement with pronouns and
quantifiers (for example, "All of the students has left" instead of "All of the students have left").

Verb phrases Incorrect verb phrases, incorrect verb tenses, transitive verbs used as intransitive verbs.
Chapter III Chapter I

Instrument
Research Object Of The
Of The
Design Research
Research

Technique
Technique Of
Collecting The
Data Data Analysis
Research Design Chapter
III

This research will use descriptive qualitative

method
Object Of The Research Chapter
III

The object of the research is all the four semester

students essay in English department of UMB.
Instrument Of The Research Chapter
III

The Instrument of this research is English Spelling

and Grammar checker in Microsoft Office word 2013
Technique Collecting Chapter
III
The Data
1. Come to the classroom and presenting the way of turn Mi
crosoft spelling and grammar checker on
2. ask four semester student to write an Essay
3. Ask the four semester student in English department to re
check and fix their essay by using the Microsoft Spelling
and grammar checker
4. Collect the data
Technique Of Data Analysis Chapter
III

P = Percentage
N= Number of samples
F = frequency

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Chapter 1. Analyze the students essay by using Microsof
I
t grammar and spelling checker
2. Calculate and tabulate all the spelling and gra
mmatical correctness
Chapter
II
3. Compare all grammatical and spelling error b
ased on grammatical and spelling error on Mi
crosoft office
Chapter 4. Make and describe the result
III 5. Make the conclusion