An Error Analysis of Descriptive Writing at the Tenth Grade Students on SMK Karya Wijaya Kusuma Jakarta in the 2015/2016 Academic Year

verni juita; drs. h. susilo wardoyo, m.pd; nurhandayani. s, m.pd;

TRIHAJARAKBARINI.1201067010 AnErrorAnalysisofDescriptiveWriting
on theTenthGradeStudentsatSMKKARYAWIJAYAKUSUMAJakartainthe
2015/2016AcademicYear. Apaper.Jakarta:TheStudyProgrammeofEnglish
Education,TheSchoolofTeacherTrainingandEducation,TheUniversityof
MuhammadiyahProf.DR.HAMKA,2016
Theobjectivesoftheresearchweretofindoutthetypicalerrorsandthe
sourcesoferrorwhichweremadebythestudentsindescriptivewriting.The
researchwasheldatthetenthgradestudentsofSMKKARYAWIJAYA
KUSUMAJAKARTA.Themethodusedinthisresearchwasadescriptive
analyticalmethod.Thewriteradministeredaguidedtaskondescriptivewriting.
Aftergettingthedata,thewriteranalyzedandclassifiedtheerrorsbasedonthe
grammaticalaspectsandfoundthesourcesoferrors.
Theresultoftheresearchshowedthatthetypicalerrorsmadebystudents
inthestudents’writingweretheerrorsof capitalization inthefirstrankwith35,
21% followedbyerrorsof punctuation with16,90%,theerrorsof spelling with
13, 02%,theerrorsof wordchoice with9,85%,theerrorsof omitaword with
7, 21%,theerrorsof singularplural with6,86%,theerrorsof addaword with
4,22 %,theerrorsof runonsentence with2,11%,theerrorsof meaningnot
clear with1,93%,theerrorsof verbtense with1,58%,theerrorsof
incompletesentence with1,05%,theerrorsof wordorder with0,17%,andthe
errorsof article with0,00%.Theresultoftheresearchrevealedthatthesourcesof
errorthatcausedthestudents’errorwere contextoflearning inthefirstrankwith
37, 98%followedby intralingualtransfer with37,50%, interlingualtransfer
with12,98%,and communicationstrategies with11,54%.
Basedontheresult,thewriterconcludedthatthemosttypeoferror
students’madeiscapitalization.Theremedialteachingistheteachershouldgive
moreexplanationaboutthecapitalization.Itmakesthestudentsunderstandabout
capitalizationinthecorrectusage.Themostsourceoferrorstudents’madeisthe
contextoflearning.Theremedialteachingistheteachergiveanexplanationabout
thematerialclearlytoavoidthestudentsmakethesameerrorsinthefuture.