AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF DESCRIPTIVE WRITING OF THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MTs N 05 CILINCING NORTH JAKARTA IN THE 2013/2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

salma nabella; drs. h. bahrul hasibuan, m. ed.;

FAJRIA ULFA. NIM: 0901065089. An Error Analysis of Students’ Descriptive Writing of Eighth Grade Students of MTs N 05 Cilincing North Jakarta in 2013/2014 Academic Year. A Paper: Jakarta, The Study Programme of English Education. The School of Teachers Training and Education. The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka. February 2014.
The objective of this research is to get an empirical evidence of the most common types of errors and identify the sources of errors that the students of the eighth grade students of MTs N 05 Cilincing North Jakarta made in their writing. In collecting the data, the writer gives a descriptive writing test to the students. This research is conducted at MTs N 05 Cilincing North Jakarta at the VIII-I class which consists of 30 students. The writer used purposive cluster sampling to get the sample.
The method which the writer used was descriptive analytical method. Descriptive analytical method is a study where facts are described and supported the fact with analysis.
The finding(s) of this research show(s) that the eighth grade students of MTs N 05 Cilincing North Jakarta made many types of errors. Mostly, the eighth grade students of MTs N 05 Cilincing North Jakarta made errors in Word Form with 16.20% at the first place. This error can be interpreted that the students still lack of part of speech. The second place is followed by errors in Word Order with 14.35% that can be interpreted that the students cannot differentiate the grammatical rules between their first language and English which make them confused to put the words into the right order. The third place is followed by Add a Word with 13.42% that can be interpreted that the students were not aware of the words they have to add in a sentence.