Error Analysis Of Descriptive Texts Made By The Eighth Grade Students At SMP N 2 Colomadu In 2014/2015 Academic Year

• Main Authors: Widiastutik, Retno (Author), , Prof. Dr. Endang Fauziati, M. Hum (Author), , Siti Fatimah, S.Pd., M. Hum (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2015-06-30.
• Subjects: Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
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• Notes: https://eprints.ums.ac.id/33841/2/02.%20PUBLICATION%20JURNAL.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/33841/3/03.%20FRONT%20PAGE.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/33841/7/04.%20CHAPTER%20I.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/33841/10/05.%20CHAPTER%20II.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/33841/13/06.%20CHAPTER%20III.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/33841/16/07.%20CHAPTER%20IV.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/33841/17/08.%20CHAPTER%20V.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/33841/18/09.%20BIBLIOGRAPHY.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/33841/23/10.%20APPENDIX.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/33841/1/01.%20SURAT%20PERNYATAAN%20PUBLIKASI%20KARYA%20ILMIAH.pdf
• Keywords: L Education (General); LB Theory and practice of education

Retno Widiastutik. A320110116. ERROR ANALYSIS ON DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS MADE BY THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMP N 2 COLOMADU IN 2014/2015 ACADEMIC YEAR. The Research Paper. Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta. 2015 The aims of this research are: (1) to describe errors made by eighth grade students of SMP N 2 Colomadu in their writing descriptive texts, (2) identifying the types of lexical errors, grammatical errors, and discourse errors and also explain the frequency of each type of errors, and (3) describing the dominant type of errors, and identifying the sources of errors. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative research because there is no calculating data in this research. The qualitative research are describing data and not using any statistic procedure. The technique for collecting the data is analyzing. Analyzing is the method of collecting data by documents, books, letters, agenda, worksheet, and other which is written. Then, the steps for collecting the data they are: (1) taking two classes to collect descriptive texts made by students there is VIIIA, (2) asking the students to make descriptive texts in a topic given by the researcher, (3) reading the students' texts one by one, marking erroneous sentences based on the data, (4) writing the erroneous sentences on the notebook, (5) grouping the data into general classifications of errors, (6) identifying erroneous sentence found in the data, and (7) listing erroneous sentences into classification of errors. The researcher uses James' theory for classification, Dulay, et al.'s theory, and Brown's theory for sources of errors. The result of this study shows that the researcher found in the lexical level they are: wrong spelling 11, 70%, and code switching 3, 54%. Then in the grammatical level, found 16 types of errors which divided into some parts, they are the use of verb tense divided into three, they are: the use of V1 without (-s) for 3rd person singular 13, 12%, the wrong form of V1 for 3rd person singular 10, 28%, and the use of V1 for gerund 2, 48%. Then for BE divided into four, they are: addition of BE in the present tense 8, 86%, omission of BE as predicate 6, 73%, and the wrong selection of BE 1, 41%, and the use of BE 1, 06%. The next for article is addition of article 7, 80%. The error in pronoun divided into seven, they are: subjective for possessive pronoun 7, 09%, the wrong selection of pronoun 3, 90%, omission of possessive 1, 06%, possessive for subjective pronoun 0, 70%, addition of possessive 0, 70%, subjective for objective pronoun 0, 35%, and the wrong form of relative clause 0, 35%. Then the last error in grammatical level is misordering 5, 67%.The discourse level found 4 types of errors they are: generic structure 9, 21%, reference 1, 77%, conjunction 1, 77%, and language feature 0, 35%. The highest percentage of error is the use of V1 without (-s) for 3rd person singular is 37 errors (13, 12%). Key words: error analysis, descriptive text, sources of errors.