An Error Analysis on students' Descriptive Writing of The Tenth Grade of SMAN 74 Jakarta on The Second Semester in The 2018/2019 Academic Year

dewi puji rahayu, s.e., m.si ; sumardi, s.e,m.si; drs. zuhad ahmad, m.pd.; siti aminah, m.pd.;

TRI AZIYATI TAMIMI: 1401065150. AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON STUDENTS‟ DESCRIPTIVE WRITING OF THE TENTH GRADE OF SMAN 74 JAKARTA ON THE SECOND SEMESTER IN THE 2018/2019 ACADEMIC YEAR. A paper, Jakarta, The English Study Program, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2018.
This study was conducted at 10 MIPA 2 of SMAN 74 Jakarta on the first semester in the 2018/ 2019 academic year. The objective of this study was to find the type and source of errors which made by students in writing. The respondents of this study were 26 students. The writer used purposive sampling technique to get representative data. The method of this study was descriptive analytical. The instruments used for collecting the data were students‟ writing descriptive.
In the first meeting, the writer asked the students to make descriptive text based on the instruction in writing task. Then, the writer collected the students‟ writing to be analyzed by underlining their mistake. In the second meeting, the writer gave back the students‟ writing to re-correct their mistakes that had been underlined by the writer. Then, the writer analyzed types of error from the students‟ writing by using Azar‟s theory and sources of error by Brown‟s theory.
The result of this study informed that the common errors on students‟ writing descriptive were verb tense (13.90 %), word choice (12.34%), omit a word (11.60%), punctuation (1.80%), word form (8.20%), add a word (7.96%), singular-plural (7.96%), meaning not clear (7.20%), spelling (5.40%), capitalization (4.10 %), word order (3.60 %), article (3.34 %), incomplete sentences (2.30%), and run on sentence (1.30%).Furthermore, the sources of errors were intralingual transfer (66.60%), and interlingual transfer (33.40%).