An Error Analysis Of Descriptive Writing Of The Tenth Grade Students At SMA Negeri 48 Jakarta In The 2018/2019 Academic Year

dessy wanda zain; nita kaniadewi, m. pd;

Dessy Wanda Zain. Student Identity: 1401065029. An Error Analysis of Descriptive Writing of the Tenth Grade Students at Sma negeri 48 Jakarta. The Paper: Jakarta. The Study Programme of English Education.The School of Teacher Training and Pedagogy.The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, Jakarta 2019.
The objective of the study was to know the types and the sources of errors in
descriptive writing and also to know the appropriate remedial in overcoming
errors of the student’s writing of the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 48
Jakarta. There were seven classes, and the writer only chose one class which
consisted of 32 students as sample. The sampling technique used was random
sampling technique. The writer used descriptive method with the test technique in
this research by taking the data twice. Based on calculation, the writer concluded
that the most typical types of errors made by students were in capitalization
(18.4%), verb tense (16.9%), singular-plural (13.15%), punctuation (12.03%),
word choice (10.90%), spelling (9.40%), omit a word (6.00%), add a word(3.75%), word form (3.40%), word order and article (2.65%), meaning not clear (0.75%), run-on sentence, and incomplete sentence (0.00%). In accordance to the above typical errors, the writer found out that the most typical sources of errors made by the students were in first language interference (47.00%), carelessness (39.85%), and translation (13.15%). To solve errors made by the students in the research, the writer suggested that in capitalization the teachers give the students explanation and also more practices about the capitalization in writing, In verb tense the teachers should give students an overview of the entire verb system in the different time, and in singular-plural the teachers have to drill the term of singular-plural to memorize them, and give more exercises about singular-plural. The benefit of the research result was to give information of the typical errors and the sources of errors which made by the students and to give an appropriate remedial teaching to eliminate the student’s errors.