AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE WRITING OF THE TENTH GRADE OF SMKN 41 JAKARTA IN THE 2014/2015 ACADEMIC YEAR

ketlin nurul hikmah; dra. roslaini, m. hum.; gigih anggara yuda, m. pd.;

AKHYA DIANTI. NIM: 1001065013. An Error Analysis of the Students’
Descriptive Writing of the Tenth Grade of SMKN 41 Jakarta in the 2014/2015
Academic Year. A Paper, Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education.
The School of Teacher Training and Education. The University of
Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA. November 2014.
The objectives of this research are to find the empirical evidence oftypical
errors and the sources of error made by students of the tenth grade of SMKN 41
Jakarta in the 2014/2015 Academic Year.
The method that is used in this research is analytical descriptive.In
collecting the data the writer gives a descriptive writing test to the students. Then,
the writer analyzes the writing errors made by the students. This research is
conducted at SMKN 41 Jakarta in the 2014/2015 Academic Year which consist of
25 students in one class of the tenth grade with purposive cluster sampling
technique.
From the calculation, the writer finds that the three most typical errors in
the students’ writing are errors in capitalizationwith 92 errorsor 28.57%, errors in
spelling with 47 errors or 14.60%, and errors in punctuation with 34 errors or
10.56%.The three least typical errors are errors in article with 4 errors or 1.24%,
errors in incomplete sentence with 3 errors or 0.93%, anderrors in run-on
sentence with 0 error or 0%.In this research, the writer also finds the sources of
errors are context of learning with 140 errors or 44.30%, inter-lingual transfer
with 105 errors or 33.23%, intra-lingual transfer with 63 errors or 19.94%, and
communication strategies with 8 errors or 2.53%.
Based on thethe data analysis, it shows that the most typical error is
capitalization and the least is run-on sentence. It shows that students still have
difficulty to understand and apply the explanation of English by the English
teacher.The students need more practicewith the English teacher to evaluate their
errors especially in descriptive writing.