An Error Analysis of Students’ Writing Descriptive Text at the Tenth Grade on SMAN 91 Jakarta in 2017/2018 Academic Year

jonathan e. duchac; drs. h. susilo wardoyo, m.pd; ratih novita sari, m.pd.;

Arina Sabilah Huda. An Error Analysis of Students’ Writing Descriptive Text at
the Tenth Grade on SMAN 91 Jakarta in 2017/2018 Academic Year. A paper,
Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teacher
Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka,
2017.
The objective of this study is to find out types and sources of error made by the
students in writing descriptive text at the tenth grade on SMAN 91 Jakarta. This
study was conducted on SMAN 91 Jakarta in the first semester of the 2017/2018
academic year. The respondent of this study was 35 students. The writer analyzed
the types of error based on Thornbury’s theory and the source of error based on
Ellis and Barkhuizen’s theory in the students’ writing. This study used descriptive
qualitative method. The result of the study revealed that the types of error on the
students’ writing descriptive text were lexical error (50%), grammar error
(41.32%), and discourse error (8.68%). While the sources of error were
intralingual error (80.99%) and interlingual error (19.01%). After seeing the result
of the study, it can be suggested that the teacher should give remedial teaching for
the students in order to minimize the students’ error in writing descriptive text.