The Error Analysis of Students’ Descriptive Text Writing at The Eight Grade Students on SMPN 2 DEPOK in 2018 / 2019 Academic Year

ety rochaeti, s.e., m.m. ; pahman habibie, s.e., m.m.; dr. roslaini, m.hum.; siti ithriyah, m.hum.;

KAMAL FARHAN.NIM:1301065084. The Error Analysis of Students’
Descriptive Text Writing at The Eight Grade Students on SMPN 2 DEPOK in
2018 / 2019 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, 2018.
The goal of this research is to find out the most typical and sources of error
on students’ descriptive writings of the eight grade of SMPN 2 Depok. The
method was used descriptive quantitative and qualitative method; the writer
corrected the students’ written twice. The population of the research, According to
English teacher, there is no excellent class. Therefore, the writer assumed that the
average score of students ability in English are the quite the same, so the writer
choosee one class as the sample of the research, the class is VIII-A. There were
around 30 students’ who took part in the research.
The procedures of the research includes recognizing, identifying,
classifying, and evaluating the errors. The writer used Azar’s collecting student’s
work, errors identification. The writer activities were giving writing task,
analyzing the students’ error writing, and reconstructing the errors. The research
findings showed that the types of errors which the students made were Spelling
(14.42%), Capitalization (12.82%), Verb Tense (11.53%), Singular-Plural
(10.89%), Punctuation (10.87%), Add a Word (9.61%), Word Choice (6.73%),
Omit a Word (6.41%), Word Form (5.12%), Meaning not clear (4.48%), Run on
Sentence (2.88%),Word Order (2.24%), Article (1.92%), Incomplete Sentence
(0%). For the sources of error, the first rank Intralingual Transfer (54.16%). The
second rank Context of Learning (23.71%).The third Interlingual Transfer
(22.11%) and the last Communication Strategies (0%).
It is proven that the top two types of error are spelling, and capitalization.
It can be concluded that the teacher needs to give more explanation about the
terms of spelling, and capitalization in the descriptive text. Moreover, the benefits of the research result are to give the information about the types and sources of error that the eight grade students of SMPN 2 Depok made and to give appropriate remedial teaching in order to reduce the students’ errors in spelling, and capitalization.