Student Identity: 1201065139. An Error Analysis in the Analytical Exposition Writing of the Eleventh Graders of SMAN 1 Tanjungpandan in 2015/2016 Academic Year.

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MUHAMMAD RIFQI DWI CHANDRA AL FAJRI. Student Identity: 1201065139. An Error Analysis in the Analytical Exposition Writing of the Eleventh Graders of SMAN 1 Tanjungpandan in 2015/2016 Academic Year. A paper. Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education. The Faculty of Teacher Training and Education. The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, Jakarta, 2016. The objective of this study was to find out the empirical evidence of the most typical types and sources of errors found in the analytical exposition writing of the eleventh graders of SMAN 1 Tanjungpandan in 2015/2016 Academic Year. The population of this study was the eleventh graders of SMAN 1 Tanjungpandan. The sample of this study was 35 students, but when the writer took the data, there were only 29 students who were present in the class. The writer used cluster sampling technique to get the sample. The method employed in this study was descriptive analytical method based on the grammatical aspect. The writer administered a guided task on analytical exposition writing. To distinguish between errors and mistakes, the writer returned the writing sheet that had been marked to the students to be revised.The study showed that the errors made by the students were in Word Choice with 163 (18%,) Add a Word with 127 (14%), Omit a Word with 106 (12%), Capitalization with 106 (12%), Punctuation with 84 (9%), Verb Tense 61 (7%), Singular & Plural with 56 (6%), Word Form with 49 (5%), Spelling with 48 (5%,) Incomplete Sentence with 41 (5%), Meaning Not Clear with 21 (2%), Article with 15 (2%), Word Order with 12 (1%), and Run-On Sentence with 4 (0%). Meanwhile the sources of error were Intralingual Errors with 525 (59%), Context of Learning with 246 (28%), Communication Strategies with 66 (7%), and Interligual Errors with 55 (6%). After seeing the result, the writer concluded that the teacher of the eleventh grade at SMAN 1 Tanjungpandan should give further knowledge, more practice and explanation to improve the students’ understanding in how to make good sentences in writing.