Syntactic Analysis of the Narrative Essays of Senior High School Students

This investigation aims to analyze the lexical, grammatical, and mechanic errors in the senior high school students’ narrative essays, as well as how these linguistic errors are arranged in the narrative essays. The study includes an analysis of the linguistic errors the students made in order to create instructional materials that will help them learn English more effectively, particularly in terms of their grammar and writing abilities. The qualitative research method of linguistic analytical description is used to find the syntactic features of the informal narrative texts in terms of their lexical, grammatical, and structural mechanics and substance. The analytical data are sourced from the textuality of the fifty (50) informal narrative essays of Senior High School General Academic Strand students in Mayag National High, Mayag, Sison, Surigao del Norte, which are selected on the basis of the socio-economic relevance of the discourse texts. The generation of analytical linguistic data follows three phases of processing: Phase One: Identification of linguistic errors This phase is the identification of linguistic errors in the narrative texts in terms of lexical, grammatical, mechanical, and substance errors. Phase Two: Analysis of syntactic errors. In this phase, the lexical errors, grammatical errors, and mechanics and substance errors of the narrative texts are being analyzed and given emphasis. Phase Three: Construction of a Monograph. This phase includes the construction of the monograph or any instructional materials that the students are going to use.