AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENT’S ERROR IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Rika Rahmawati Suryana

doi:10.32832/english.v13i1.3777

Abstract

<p>The paper aims to find out the most typical errors and sources of error on students’ descriptive writing of the tenth grade of SMAN 3 Rangkasbitung. This study was conducted in the SMAN 3 Rangkasbitung, the 1st semester of the school year 2014-2015. The population of the research was 30 students from one class of the tenth grade of SMAN 3 Rangkasbitung and the sample was taken 30 students. The writer uses a descriptive qualitative approach and error analysis based on the aspect. As the result, the researcher found that the students made 78 errors in their descriptive writings. The errors occurred in all types of errors investigated from Azar’s give the types of errors in grammatical aspects to classified based on linguistic category taxonomies aspect. There are verb tense, omit a word, spelling, add a word, capitalization, word choice, word order, singular – plural, word form, article. The sources of error was also mostly due to interlanguage transfer. Therefore, the teachers should be more focus on teaching of verb tense then must give remedial teaching after identifying students’ error in writing also the teachers can teach students to more practices on writing.</p>

Highlights

Writing is an important skill which must be learnt besides listening, speaking and reading, students must be able to communicate in oral form and in written form
In this study, the writer uses a descriptive qualitative approach and error analysis based on the aspect. it is a kind of method that analyses the errors made by the students in responding task administered by researcher. the procedures of this study is to identify, analyze, classify, and quantify the types of error and the sources of error to evaluate the seriousness and to give the possible remedial teaching based on the types and sources of error
Based on the analysis of the data, the writer found that the total errors of each item are different. the most typical errors are in verb tense with 78 errors or 21,8 %, errors in omit a word 73 errors or 19,9 %, errors in spelling 66 errors or 18,0 %, errors in omit a word 42 errors or 11,4 %, errors in capitalization 33 errors or 9,0

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Writing is an important skill which must be learnt besides listening, speaking and reading, students must be able to communicate in oral form and in written form. The writer observed an Error Analysis of Students’ errors in descriptive writing text based on linguistic category taxonomies by Betty Schrampfer Azar (1989: 29) They had studied English writing especially writing descriptive texts in Senior High School. The researcher analyzed the errors based on linguistic category taxonomies by betty Schrampfer azar There are verb tense, omit a word, spelling, add a word, capitalization, word choice, word order, singular – plural, word form, article (1989: 29). This type of errors has interrelationship will one another.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Communication Strategies CoS

14. Run On Sentence

CONCLUSION