AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE DESCRIPTIVE WRITING ON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MTSN 27 JAKARTA BARAT IN THE 2013/2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

inka azrita; siswana, m. pd.; roihatul millah, m. pd.;

LIA SASMITA. Student identity: 1001065117. An Error Analysis of the Students’ Descriptive Writing on the Eighth Grade Students of MTsN 27 Jakarta Barat in the 2013/2014 Academic Year. The Study Program of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, Jakarta, 2014. The objective of the study is to identify and analyse the typical and sources of errors made by the eighth grade students of MTsN 27 Jakarta Barat in descriptive writing. This research also provides a proper remedial teaching for improving students‟ writing skill. In this case, the writer take one class from five classes as the sample which consists of 35 students. Descriptive analysis is the method which is used by the writer. The writer collects the data by giving descriptive task, and it uses guided writing. To differentiate between error and mistake, the writer asks the students to do the same task on different day. The students write three paragraphs based on the writer‟s instructions. Based on the research, the most typical error made by eighth grade students of MTsN 27 Jakarta Barat is in word choice on percentage 20.12 %. The second typical error is in capitalization on percentage 19.20 %. The third position is followed by add a word with 13.07 %. Meanwhile, punctuation is on percentage 10.41 %. Finally word form is 9.80 %, and omit a word with 8.00 %. From the result of research above, it can be stated that the highest type of error is in word choice. It belongs to intralingual transfer. Furthermore, intralingual transfer and context learning are the most typical sources of error.