*Faculty Member in the College of Business, Entrepreneurship and Accountancy, Cagayan State university, Andrews Campus, Tuguegarao City
Online published on 5 May, 2016.
The study investigated the frequency and the types of sentence errors committed by the respondents from the College of Business, Entrepreneurship Accountancy in writing sentences. The participants were the 30 students under the Accounting Technology program who were chosen randomly. The research method used was qualitative-quantitative and frequency count. The data was obtained from the sentences written by the respondents after listening and watching the audio-visual prompt titled “Rabbit and Turtle Story (the amazing version). The study revealed that the most common errors committed by students in themechanical category is the wrong use of punctuation; wrong use of verb tense for grammatical category and the use of sentence fragments in the structural category. Errors in structural category have a total of 63 which ranked first, grammatical category ranked second with 43 errors and mechanical category ranked third with 31 errors.
Sentence Errors, error analysis, qualitative-quantitative, audio-visual prompt, Mechanical Category
