An Error Analysis On Descriptive Writing Of Eighth Grade Students At SMPN 3 Cikupa Tangerang In 2019/2020 Academic Year

muhammad tahir; drs. h,susilo wardoyo h, drs. m. pd; drs. zuhad ahmad, m.pd;

NURUL DWI HAYATI. NIM: 1101065068. An Error Analysis on
Descriptive Writing of Eighth Grade Students at SMPN 3 Cikupa Tangerang in
2019/2020 Academic Year. A Paper. Jakarta: The Study Programme of English
Education. The School of Teachers‟ Training and Education. The University of
Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA. Jakarta. 2019.
The objective of the research is to find out the types and sources of error
in descriptive writing which are made by the eighth students of SMPN 3 Cikupa
Tangerang in 2019/2020 academic year. In order to accomplish the objective of
the research, 42 students in VIII A class were choose as the sample of the
research.
The instrument of the research is the form of descriptive writing. The
students are asked to make a descriptive writing. Then, the writer analyzed the
errors that the students made in their writing according to the types and sources of
error. After categorizing their errors, the writer tabulated them to see the
percentage of the errors. Furthermore, the writer interpreted the data and drew the
conclusion and suggestion.
After analyzing the data, it was found that the most typical of errors are
add a word 90 errors or 19.31%, followed by word choice 70 errors or 15.02%,
capitalization 59 errors or 12.66%, and meaning not clear 56 errors or 12.02%.
Moreover, the sources of errors are intralingual transfer 289 errors or 62.02%, and
interlingual transfer 144 errors or 30.90%. It means that the most typical of errors
is add a word. The students do not understand clearly about the word which they
have to put on their sentence and the most source of errors is intralingual transfer
which influence the error of verb tense to happen in eighth grade of SMPN 3
Cikupa Tangerang in 2019/2020 academic year. The writer confirmed that the
students answer incorrectly, so that students know the types of errors that they
made, and find the source of the reason why the students made error in their
descriptive writing text. The writer suggest to the students to pay more attention to
the teacher, especially about descriptive text. More memorizing vocabulary, so
they vocabularies would be better. The students also have to learn more about the
differences in the structure in English and Indonesian, in order to make the
students correctly writing in their descriptive writing text