An Error Analysis of the Students‟ Descriptive Writing at the Tenth Grade of SMAN 75 Jakarta

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RASTY DEWI ASTUTI, NIM: 1401065095. An Error Analysis of the Students‟ Descriptive Writing at the Tenth Grade of SMAN 75 Jakarta. A paper:The Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka (UHAMKA)
The research was held at SMAN 75 Jakarta Timur. The objective of the study are: to find out the typical types of errors, to know the sources of the errors, and to design remedial teaching for the students‟ error at the tenth grade of SMAN 75 Jakarta in 2017/2018 Academic Year in their descriptive writing. The samples of this study were 33 at X MIA 1. The writer asked the students to compose or arrange a descriptive writing in their writing task that has been given. The writer gave hte topics, namely: “Myself”, “My house”, and “Interesting place”.
The results of the study showed that the most types of errors which the students made were verb tense (19,08%), punctuation (16,3%), Omit a word (13,96%), Word choice (13,45%), capitalization (11,07%), add a word (10,22%), word forms (6,47%), singular-plural (3,57%), run-on sentence (2,04%), and the less error that the students made on their writing are spelling (1,87%), incomplete sentence (0,68%), word order (0,51%), meaning not clear (0,51%), and article (0,17%). For the sources of errors are intralingual transfer (60,4%) and interlingual trasnfer (39,6%). Therefore, it is important for the English teacher to explain more and give practices related to the errors committed by sthe students especially verb tense because it has the highest number in order to develop the stuedents‟ skill in writing English text.