An Error Analysis on Descriptive Writing of the Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 22 Kab. Tangerang in the 2014/2015 Academic Year.

meutia farida hatta; drs. h. bahrul hasibuan, m.ed; gigih anggana yuda, m.pd;

ENDAH SRI RAHAYU, 1101065029, An Error Analysis on Descriptive Writing
of the Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 22 Kab. Tangerang in the 2014/2015
Academic Year. Paper. Jakarta: Faculty of Teacher Training Education, University
of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. HAMKA (UHAMKA), 2015.
This research was held at SMAN 22 Kab. Tangerang. The objective of the
study is to find the empirical evidence of the most common types and sources of
errors the tenth grade students of SMAN 22 Kab. Tangerang made in their writing
in the 2014/2015 Academic Year. The samples of this study were the 30 students
at X 1, X 2, and X 3.
The writer used descriptive qualitative approach and error analysis based
on the aspect. The writer found that the most typical errors that have been done by
the students was Capitalization with 261 or 28,4%. The next errors were Singular
plural with 101 or 11%. The third position is Punctuation with 83 or 9%. The
three down typical errors are word Form with 27 or 2,9%. Incomplete Sentence
with 18 or 1,9%. Run-on Sentence with 9 or 0,9%. Meanwhile, the biggest
sources of errors was Generalization with 129 or 42,7%, Incomplete Application
of Rules with 70 or 23,2%, Ignorance of Rule Restriction with 50 or 16,6%,
Interlingual Errors with 34 or 11,3%, and the last was False Concept Hypotesized
with 19 or 6,2%.
After getting the result and conclusion from the research, the writer
concluded that the teachers in SMAN 22 Kab. Tangerang need to get more
explanation and exercises about grammar, especially for the using of
capitalization because most of the students were being careless, or probably they
don’t know when they have to use capital letters. The benefit of the research result
are to give the information of typical errors and sources of errors made by the
students and to give an appropriate remedial teaching to eliminate the students’
errors.