Writing is a tedious activity which requires one's knowledge of grammar, punctuation, spelling, word choice and sentence structure. It is one of the skills that every teacher should commit to develop especially in language subjects. This study investigated the English Sentence Construction Ability of BSE Major in English Students of the Cagayan State University at Gonzaga, Cagayan. There were thirty (30) participants, who were randomly selected from the second year to fourth year Bachelor in Secondary Education major in English students of the Cagayan State University, Gonzaga Campus during the first semester of School Year 2015–2016, employed in this study. The data were obtained from the sentences constructed by the participants after the visual and the audio-visual prompts were presented to them. The result of the study shows that the English sentence constructions ability of the respondents is low as indicated by the sentence structure employed and the number of erroneous sentences constructed. It also shows that the two most commonly committed errors in sentence construction are misspelling and subject-verb agreement issues.
Writing ability, sentence construction, sentence structure, English subject, prompts
