Effectiveness of a Remedial Teaching on Grammatical Errors in Academic Writing

Grammatical errors swell in college student writing, and when student papers are full of errors, many teachers feel obligated to correct every sentence-level errors they see and make an effective remedial program to revitalize student’s capability in producing their papers.
This research is aimed to find out types of errors and gain more definitive model of students and their problems in producing academic writing, their flaws, and the factors of their grammatical error. The method of research will be began with identifying the problem, deciding the variables of research, collecting data with questionnaire, interview, observation, and collecting students’ writing as the samples.
The hypothesis of this research is remedial teaching is an appropriate and widely used treatment to rectify the grammatical errors in order students will get higher achievement in academic writing which are grammatically acceptable and accurate especially filled with a minimum success, for example 75% or 80%.
Key words: Grammatical errors, academic writing, remedial program, achievement.

By: Rini