AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE WRITING OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMK PB SOEDIRMAN 2 EAST JAKARTA 2014/2015 ACADEMIC YEAR

ridha widya sari; drs. h. susilo wardoyo, m. pd.; tri setyaningsih, m. pd.;

GERY ANDIANA PUTRA. 1001065085. An Error Analysis of the Students’
Descriptive Writing of the Tenth grade students at SMK PB SOEDIRMAN 2 East
Jakarta in 2014/2015 Academic Year. A Paper. Jakarta: The Study Programme of
English Education, The Department of Language and Art Education, The University of
Muhammadiyah Prof. DR Hamka, 2014.
This research was conducted at SMK PB SOEDIRMAN 2 East Jakarta on the
tenth grade students which consists of 25 students .The objective of this research is to find
out the most typical errors made by the students in writing and its cause. The writer
would like to offer some ideas on how to cope with such errors. So, the writer hopes it
could give information for teacher to do a proper remedial teaching for improving the
students’ writing skill.
The writer used a descriptive method. The writer administered a guided task on
descriptive writing. To differentiate errors and mistakes, the writer asked the students do
the same test on different day. So, the students wrote 2 paragraphs based on the questions
asked by the writer.
The study showed that the most typical errors done by the students was in
capitalization 24.24 %, next punctuation with 18.18 %, meaning not clear 17.87 %,
spelling with 8.78 %, add a word with 8.18 %, singular - plural with 4.84 %, and omit a
word 4.84 %. The smallest typical errors done by the students was in word form with
4.54 %, verb tense with 3.03 %, article with 2.12 %, word choice with
1.21 %, word order with 0.90 %, incomplete sentence with 0.90 %, and run- on sentence
0.30%.