AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION OF THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMAN 3 TANGERANG IN THE 2013/2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

fadila maharani; drs. sigit sumarsono, m.pd.; nita kaniadewi, m. pd.;

ELIZA ARIFIN. An Error Analysis of Students’ Analytical Exposition of the
Eleventh Grade Students of SMAN 3 Tangerang 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 objectives of the research are to find empirical evidence of the types of errors
and the causes of errors that the students make in their writing. Also, the writer
would like to give a proper remedial program. The method is a survey involving a
descriptive linguistic analysis on the students’ analytical expositions.
In collecting the data, the writer used the writing task where the students had to
make an analytical exposition in three paragraphs based on the themes and the
titles that had been previously assigned by the writer. This research used
purposive sampling technique for taking the samples. The samples were the
second grade students of XI-IPA 4 of SMAN 3 TANGERANG which consist of
30 students.
Based on the analysis and the calculation, the writer comes to conclusions that the
typical types of errors made by the students were capitalization with 19.79%,
punctuation with 15.95%, omit a word with 12.30%, verb tense with 10.07%, and
add a word with 9.89%. The types of errors that were not too large in amount
were word choice with 8.38%, singular – plural with 6.95%, spelling with 5.17%,
incomplete sentence with 3.92%, word form with 2.94%, article with 2.67%, word
order with 1.78%, meaning not clear with 0.18%, and run on sentence with 0%.
It can be concluded that the students at the second grade of XI-IPA 4 of SMAN 3
Tangerang did not have enough grammatical competence, so the students needed
to be given a proper remedial program based on the types of errors and the causes
of errors.