An Error Analysis in Writing Descriptive Made by The Eighth Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Masaran in 2014/2015 Academic year

• Main Authors: Edo Pratama, Rizky (Author), , Prof. Dr. Endang Fauziati, M.Hum (Author), , Siti Fatimah, S. Pd, M. Hum (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2015.
• Subjects: Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
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Rizky Edo Pratama / A320110122. AN ERROR ANALYSIS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT MADE BY THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP MUHAMMADIYAH 2 MASARAN IN 2014/2015 ACADEMIC YEAR. Research paper. School of Teacher Training and Education, Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta. July, 2015. The aims of this research are: (1) to indentify the types of errors made by the eighth grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Masaran in their writing descriptive texts, (2) identifiying the types of lexical errors, syntactical errors, and discourse errors and also explain the frequency of each type of errors, and (3) describing the dominant type of errors, and identitying the sources of errors. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative research. In colecting the data the writer uses elicitation. There are three steps in collecting data,namely (1) The researcher enters the class and asks students to compose a descriptive text, (2) The researcher collects the data of students' writing then reads and marks the types of errors that occur in students' writing, (3)The researcher document the erroneous sentences then classifies the type of errors based on linguistic category and surface strategy category. In analyzing the data, the researcher uses James' theory for classification of errors, Slamet's theory for the frequency of each type of error, and Brown, Norish, Richard for sources of errors theory. The result of this studyshows taht the researcher found in the 'Lexical Errors' consist of 80 errors or 25,15 % of errors. They are: Code switching 11 errors or 3,46 % of errors, Wrong spelling 41 errors or 12,89%, False friend 28 errors or 8,80%. Then in the 'Syntactical Errors' found 16 types of errors consist of 214 errors or 67,30% of errors. That error cover: V1 without s/es for 3rd person singular 11 errors or 3,46%errors, the wrong from of V1 for 3rd person 9 errors or 2,83% of errors, the use of gerund 8 errors or 2,52%, addition of BE in the present tense 10 errors or 3,14%, omission BE as predicate 34 errors or 10,69% of errors, the use of BE 8 errors or 2,52% of errors, addition of article 11 errors or 3,46% of errors, omission of article 30 errors or 9,43% of errors, Pronoun from subjective for possesive 3 errors or 0,94% of errors, Pronoun from subjective for objective 8 errors or 2,51% of errors, Pronoun from possesive for subjective 2 errors or 0,63%, addition of subjective pronoun 2 errors or 0,63% of errors, omission of possesive pronoun 14 errors or 4,40% of errors, omission of subjective pronoun 20 errors or 6,29% of errors. the wrong selection of pronoun 4 errors of 1,26% of errors, Missordering 40 errors or 12,58% of errors."Discourse Errors consist of 24 errors or 7,55% of errors, that cover: conjunction 15 errors or 4,72% of errors, generic structure 5 errors or 1,57% of errors, reference 4 errors or 1,26% of error.

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