Abstract
This study aims to describe students’ substance errors especially the use of punctuation in writing descriptive texts. The present researcher used descriptive qualitative method in this study. It was conducted in English study program at the second semester of Hamzanwadi University. There were twenty students of C class chosen randomly to be participants. The data were collected by asking the participants to write an essay about descriptive text and asking the participants to fill some questionnaires. The participants’ work sheets and the questionnaires were analyzed to find out the common errors in using punctuation. The analysis showed the most dominant error were (1) the students omitted the use of comma that was 37,77%; (2) errors in using comma was 31, 11%; (3) error in using period that was 20%; (4) students omitting period that was 6, 66%; and (5) students omitted the use of apostrophe that was 4, 44%.
Highlights
Language takes very important position when people want to express their opinion by mean of spoken or written. Sleeper (2007, p. 1) noted that language is a fundamental part of how humans interact with each other and the environment around them
This study aims to describe students’ substance errors especially the use of punctuation in writing descriptive texts
The analysis showed the most dominant error were (1) the students omitted the use of comma that was 37,77%; (2) errors in using comma was 31, 11%; (3) error in using period that was 20%; (4) students omitting period that was 6, 66%; and (5) students omitted the use of apostrophe that was 4, 44%
Summary
Language takes very important position when people want to express their opinion by mean of spoken or written. Sleeper (2007, p. 1) noted that language is a fundamental part of how humans interact with each other and the environment around them. It is firm to be imagined how people can cooperate and make progression with the others without language. They will face some difficulties or obstacles. Every country has been using a particular language as their national identity. English is taught from the first year of junior high school up to the level of university. It is regarded as a foreign language which is used in business domain and in educational context in Indonesia. In English there are four skills that every student should master; those are listening, speaking, reading and writing. Sholahudin (2013, p.13) stated that these four skills are related
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