AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON THE STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE WRITING AT THE TENTH GRADE OF SMAN 5 SOUTH TANGERANG IN THE 2014/2015 ACADEMIC YEAR

ade andriani; dra. roslaini, m. hum.; gigih anggara yuda, m. pd.;

NURSAFITRI. An Error Analysis on the Students‟ Descriptive Writing at the Tenth Grade of SMAN 5 South Tangerang in the 2014/2015 Academic Year. Paper, Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education, the School of Teacher Training and Education, the University of Muhammadiyah PROF. DR. HAMKA, 2015.
The objective of this research is to find out the most typical and frequent sources of errors made by the students in descriptive writing and to offer a reasonable solution to the students. This study was held at SMAN 5 South Tangerang
The writer used a descriptive analytical method through the writer tried to describe the data. It consists of collecting, identifying, classifying and interpreting data. Then, the writer concludes the result of the research. This research was conducted at SMAN 5 South Tangerang on the tenth grade students which consists of 30 students.
From data calculation, the writer comes to a conclusion that the most typical errors in the students‟ writing errors which is based on Azhar are errors in capitalization were 211 (31.63%) and the less typical errors in a article were 1 (0.15%). Moreover the most frequent sources of error in the students‟ writing error which is based on Brown are communication strategies were 232 (34.78%) and the less frequent sources in context of learning were 93 (13.94%). It indicates that most of students need more treatment and remedial teaching from the teacher to revise their errors in English writing and the tenth grade students of SMAN 5 South Tangerang still need more practice in order to develop their writing.