The Error Analysis of writing descriptive text at the tenth grade students of SMKN 63 Pertanian Jakarta in the 2018-2019 aacademic year

dewi puji rahayu, s.e., m.si ; ahmad sonjaya s.e., m.si; dr. roslaini, m.hum; dr. burhayani. m.pd.;

NARJUL BARIYAH.1301O65116. The Error Analysis of writing descriptive text at the tenth grade students of SMKN 63 Pertanian Jakarta in the 2018-2019 aacademic year. A paper, Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education, The school of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof, DR. Hamka,2019.
The goal of this research is to find out the most typical and sources of error on the students’ descriptive writings of the eight grade of SMKN 63 Pertanian Jakarta. The method used was descriptive quantitative and qualitative method; the writer corrected the students’ writing twice. The population of the research, According to English teacher, there is no excellent class. Therefore, the writer assumed that the average score of the students ability in English are quite same, so the writer chose one class as the sample of the research, the class is X-A. There were around 30 students’ who took part in theresearch.
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 writers 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%). Next, the percentage of the sources of errors was as follow: intralingual transfer with 150 or 56.40%, context of learning with 81 or 30.45%, and the last position was interlingual transfer with 35 or 13.15%.
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 tenth grade students of SMKN 63 Pertanian Jakarta made and to give appropriate remedial teaching in order to reduce the students’ errors in spelling, and capitalization.