An Error Analysis on The Dsecriptive Writing of The Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 179 Jakarta on The First Semester in The 2017/2018 Academic Year
dr. akhmad haqiqi m, m.pd;
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HAYATUN NUPUS. NIM: 1401065055. An Error Analysis on The DsecriptiveWriting of The Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 179 Jakarta on The First Semester in The 2017/2018 Academic Year. A paper; The Study Program of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka (UHAMKA), Jakarta 2018.
The research was held at SMPN 179 Jakarta. The objectives of the study are: to know the typical error on the students’ descriptive writing, to know the sources of the error, and to create the remedial task in order to reduce the students’ errors made by eighth grade students of SMPN 179 Jakarta in first semester of the 2017/ 2018 Academic Year in their descriptive writing. The samples of this study were 25 students at 82. The writer asked the students to make the descriptive writing based on the instruction given. The writer gave the topic, such as; “Myself” and “My School”. Meanwhile, to differentiate the errors and mistakes, the writer did the the data collection for two times. In the first meeting, the writer asked the students to make the descriptive writing task. After that, in the second meeting, the writer asked the students to revise their mistakes that already marked by the writer. Then, the writer used Azar’s theory for the types of errors and Brown’s theory for the sources of errors in analyzing the data. Based on the calculation of the results, the most types of errors that students made were verb tense errors (24,51%), spelling errors (18,67%), omit a word errors (14,00%), word form errors (9,72%), word choice errors (9,72%), capitalization errors (9,33%), capitalization errors (9,33%), add a word errors (3,89%), singular plural errors (2,72%), punctuation errors (1,16%), incomplete sentence error (0,38%), word order (0%), run on sentence (0%) and the last article (0%). For the sources of errors, the first rank is intralingual transfer 76,42% . Thesecond rank is interlingual transfer 22,81%. The result of the data analysis showed that the most typical error were verb tense and the less were word order, run on sentence and article. Those indicates that most of the students need more explanation and remedial teaching from the teacher to evaluate their writing errors in writing English. Meanwhile, the eighth grade students of SMPN 179 Jakarta also need more practice in order to develop their writing.
