An Error Analysis On The Students Writing Of Descriptive Text For Tenth Grade Students Of SMAN I Cilograng Banten In 2019-2020 Academic Year

puteri a. nurillahi; drs. zuhad ahmad, m.pd; siti aminah m. pd;

PUTERI A. NURILLAHI. 1301065138. An Error Analysis on the Students
Writing of Descriptive Text for Tenth Grade Students of SMAN I Cilograng
Banten in 2019-2020 Academic Year. A Paper, Jakarta: The Study Program of
English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The
University of Muhamadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka, Jakarta 2019.
The research was held at SMAN 1 Cilograng Banten. The objective of the
study are: to know the typical errors on the students’ descriptive writing, to know
the sources of the errors which are made by the students in the first semester at the
tenth grade on SMAN 1 Cilograng in the 2019/2020 Academic Year in their
descriptive writing.
The writer gave themes namely: “Your Idol” and “Your Interesting Place.
Based on the calculation results, the most types of errors which the students made
were punctuation (21.3%), omit a word (13.8%), word choice (13.3%), spelling
(11.2%), verb tense (8%), capitalization (7%), meaning not clear (6%), add a word
and word order (5%), singular plural (4%), incomplete sentence (3%), word form,
article and run on sentence (1%). For the sources of error, the first rank is
carelessness (43%). The second rank is translation (33%). The last is first
language interference (24%)