AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE DESCRIPTIVE WRITING OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMK MUHAMMADIYAH 15 JAKARTA SELATAN

ilham jamaludin; siswana, m. pd.; nita kaniadewi, m. pd.;

NUR HAMIMAH. Student Identity: 1001065157. An Error Analysis of the Descriptive Writing of the Tenth Grade Students of SMK Muhammadiyah 15 South Jakarta. Paper: Jakarta. The Study Program of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof.DR.Hamka, Jakarta 2014.
The objective of the study was to find the empirical evidence of the most typical of errors, and the sources of errors which were made by the tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 15 South Jakarta. The population of the research was the tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 15 South Jakarta. It consisted of 35 students, but when the writer took the data, there were only 30 students that present in the class. The writer used a purposive cluster sampling technique to get the samples.
The method employed in this research was a descriptive analysis. The writer administered a guided task on descriptive writing. To distinguish errors and mistakes, the writer returned the writings that have been marked to the students to be revised. The writer asked the students do the same test on different day. So, the students wrote 3 paragraph based on the outline given by the writer.
The research showed that the most typical errors done by the students were in capitalization with 131 or 19.06%, add word with 123 or 17.20%, word choice with 113 or 16.44%, omit a word with 73 or 10.62%, verb tense with 56 or 8.15%, word order with 36 or 5.24%, article with 33 or 4.80%, word form with 25 or 3.63%, and meaning not clear with 25 or 3.63%. The smallest typical errors done by the students were in run on sentence with 7 or 1.01%, singular-plural with 12 or 1.74%, incomplete sentence with 13 or 1.89 %, punctuation with 16 or 2.32%, and spelling with 24 or 3.49%.