Abstract
The purpose of the research is to find out the types of error which made by the ninth graders in writing descriptive text using simple present tense at SMPIT Nurul Ihsan. The number of the students is 27 students. This research uses qualitative descriptive as the approach. The researcher directly did the survey and conducted a written test to the students write English descriptive text. The result of the study shows that there are 77 errors from all students’ compositions. The most error made is misformation with the percentage 49,35%. Followed misordering with the percentage 20,78%, then addition with the percentage 18,18%, and the least error made is omission with the percentage is 11,69%. Most students made wrong sentence in misformation category. The cause of that is the interference from mother language or L1. It makes them influenced the way they think about the language they are learning. When they compose a text in English, they follow the rule of L2. Consequently, they should be guided more so that they could understand about simple present tense.
Highlights
To communicate is one of the humans’ interaction forms in sharing information
There are sundanese which is used in West Java, Javanese used in Central Java and East Java, Bataknese used in Medan, and so on
The students missed to be in nominal sentences
Summary
To communicate is one of the humans’ interaction forms in sharing information. Humans have language to communicate each other. They can express feelings, thoughts, ideas, and hopes. The form of communication can be spoken language, written language, and gesture or body language, and so forth. There are so many various languages in all over the world. Every region or country uses different language. Indonesia which consists of different races, tribes, and cultures from all over the regions has various languages. There are sundanese which is used in West Java, Javanese used in Central Java and East Java, Bataknese used in Medan, and so on. Indonesia uses Indonesian Language as national language to unite its people in their daily communication
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