An Error Analysis on the Student's Writing Descriptive Text at the Tenth Grade on SMAN 1 JaTISARIN 2016/2017 Academic Year

rusdi raprayogha; drs. sigit sumarsono, m.pd; nurhandayani. s, m.pd;

VIRNA NURPRATIWI: 1201065254 AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON THE
STUDENT’S WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE TENTH GRADE ON
SMAN 1 JATISARI IN 2016/2017 ACADEMIC YEAR. A paper, Jakarta, The
English Study Program, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The
University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2016.
This research was conducted at the tenth grade students of SMAN 1
Jatisari in the 2016/2017 academic year. The objective of this study was to find
the typical errors and the causes of errors which were made by the students in
writing. The respondents of this study were 30 students. In the first meeting, the
writer asked the students to make descriptive writing based on the instruction that
had been given in the writing task. The topic is “One of My Family Member”.
After that, the writer collected the students’ writing to be analyzed by underlining
the mistake. In the second meeting, the writer gave back the writing to the
students. Next, the writer asked the students to re-correct their mistakes that had
been underlined by the writer. Then, the writer analyzed the types of error by
using Azar’s theory and the sources of error by Brown’s theory in the student’s
writing.
In this research, the writer used descriptive analytical method. In
collecting the data, the writer administered a kind of writing task to students.
Then, the writer analyzed the errors that were made by the students in their
writing.
The result of the research revealed that the common errors on the student’s
writing were errors in the word choice (19.58%), verb tense (16.44%),
capitalization (14.62%), add word (9.39%), omit word (8.87%), punctuation
(7.83%), word order (6.26%), meaning not clear (6.00%), singular-plural (3.55%),
article (2.78%), spelling (2.34%), run-on sentence (0.78%), incomplete sentence
(0.78%), word form (0.52%). Besides, the common errors on the sources of errors
were in the communication strategies (32.55%), context of learning (24.28%),
interlingual transfer (21.96%), and intralingual transfer (21.18%). After seeing the
result of the study, it indicated that some students need more treatment and
remedial teaching from the teacher toward their errors in English .