AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE DESCRIPTIVE WRITING OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMAN 6, SOUTH JAKARTA IN 2013-2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

suci nofrianti; siswana, m. pd.; martriwati, m. pd.;

LILIANA ROMADONNI. An Error Analysis of the Descriptive Writing of the Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 6, South Jakarta in 2013-2014 Academic Year
. The paper: Jakarta. The Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, Jakarta 2014.
The population of the study is the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 6 Jakarta the 2013/2014 academic year. It consist of 35 students, but sample taken is 31 students. The objective of the study is to find out the empirical evidence to support the answer of the problem as stated previously. The writer also would like to offer some ideas on how to cope with such errors. So, the writer hopes it can give information for teacher to do a proper remedial teaching for improving the students‟ writing skill, while for students they are expected not to make the same errors or mistake continuously.
The method used in this research is descriptive analytical method which means that this method solves the problems by analyzing the errors in the students‟ writings. The writer administers a free test on descriptive writing. Morover, to differentiate errors and mistakes, the writer asked the students to do the same task on different time. So, the students wrote 3 paragraphs based on the directions that were asked by the writer. The writer would like to find out the types of error and mistake by the students.
The study shows that the most typical errors done by the students is in singular-plural with 17.4%, next punctuation with 15.5 %, capitalization with 11.2%, verb tense with 9.4%, incomplete sentence with 8 %, word choice with 8%, add a word with 6.6%, run on sentence with 4.7 %, spelling with 4.7 %, word order with 4.7%, word form with 3.8%, omit word with 3.2%, article with 1.9%, meaning not clear with 1%.. According to the above typical errors, the writer found out that the most sources which cause students making the errors is intralingual transfer.