As Error Analysis Of Descriptive Writing Of The Second Grade Student At SMP Ar Raudhah Islamic School Tambun Bekasi In The 2018/2019 Academic Year

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Afni Muhaina. Nim: 1401065004. As Error Analysis Of Descriptive Writing Of The Second Grade Student At SMP Ar Raudhah Islamic School Tambun Bekasi In The 2018/2019 Academic Year. A Paper, Jakarta, The English Study Programme, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University Of Muhammadiyah Prof Dr. Hamka, 2019.

This study was out to analyze and to classify the types and the sources of student's grammatical errors in writing descriptive paragraph. The errors collected were classified based on azar's theory types of errors and Brown's theory of the students' types and sources of errors writing descriptive paragraph. The method used in this study was a qualitative descriptive analysis. The instrument used in this study was a writing task. The subjects of this study were the second year students of 8.A. The writer took 25 students as the respondents. The result of the error analysis showed thst the students made fourteen types of errors: add a word (17.00%). capita;ization (12.00%), punctuation (12.00%), word choice (10.00%), omit a word (8.00%), spelling (8.00%), word from (6.00%), run-on sentence (5.00%), article (5.00%), word order (5.00%), verb tense (4.00%), meaning not clear (3.00%), singular-plural (2.00%), and incomplete sentence (0%). In addition, the most typical sources of errors, from the highest to lowest, were intralingual transfer (54.00%), interlingual transfer (46.00%), context of learning (0.00%), and communication strategies (0.00%).