An Error Analysis Of Students’ Descriptive Writing At The Tenth Grade Students Of SMAN 1 Bojonggede, Bogor In 2018/2019 Academic Year

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PUTRI DWI RAHAYU. NIM 1301065141. An Error Analysis of Students’
Descriptive Writing at the Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 1 Bojonggede, Bogor
in 2018/2019 Academic Year, the Study Programme of English Education, the
School of the Teachers’ Training and Education, the University of
Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka, Jakarta, 2019.
This research was conducted at SMAN 1 Bojonggede Bogor. The
objective of the research is to find the most common types and sources of error the
students made at the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Bojonggede Bogor. The
writer analyzed the types of error by using Betty Azar’s classification and
analyzed the sources of error by using Richards and Fisiak’s theory. The samples
were 34 students in class X IPA 2. The research took places for two days on
October 10th and October 17th, 2018.
The writer found that the highest three types of error that students’ made
were capitalization (32.14%), add a word (14.71%), and word choice (14.08%).
The lowest three types of error were incomplete sentence (0.42%), meaning not
clear (0.42%), and word order (0.63%). Meanwhile, the highest source of
students’ error was intralingual error (93.91%), and the lowest source of students’
error was interlanguage error (6.09%).
From the statement above, it can be concluded that the remedial teaching
of the most common types of error on capitalization is the teacher needs to give
more explanation about English grammar especially on capitalization, word
choice, and punctuation. While, the remedial teaching of the sources of error on
intralingual error is the teacher should know the sources of students’ error to
decrease the students’ error in writing especially in descriptive writing by giving
more explanation, examples, and exercises of English grammar