An Error Analysis on The Students Descriptive Writing of The Tenth Grade Students of MAN 10 JAKARTA In The 2014/2015 Academic Year

romiyatun; martriwati, m.pd.; cahya komara, s.pd., m.hum;

Nia Nurmala. NIM 1001065145, An Error Analysis on The Students Descriptive Writing of The Tenth Grade Students of MAN 10 JAKARTA In The 2014/2015 Academic Year. AP Paper: Jakarta, The Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teachers' training and education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, 2015.
The objective of the research is to find out the grammatical error that the students mostly make in their descriptive paragraph. The research was held at the tenth grade students of MAN 10 Jakarta in the 2014/2015 academic year. In order to accomplish the objective of the research, 34 students in X-I class are choosen as the sample.
The instrument of the research is the form descriptive writing. The students were asked to make a descriptive writing. Then the writer analyzed the errors that the students made in their writing according to the types of error. After categoring 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. The research shows that the types of errors analyzes by using Betty Azzar's formula, and the result of types of errors are singular plural 19 errors (4,79%), word form 3 errors (0.76%), word choice 70 errors (17.63%), verb tense 20 errors (5.04%), add a word 80 errors (20.15%) omit a word 48 errors (12.09%), word order 7 errors (1.76%), incomplete sentence 3 errors (0.76%), spelling 34 errors (8.56%), punctuation 48 errors (12.09%), capitalization 36 errors (9.07%), article 18 errors (4.53%), meaning not clear 10 (2.52%), and run-on-sentence I error (0.25%). However, the sources of error analyzes by using Brown formula, and the result of sources of errors are interlingual transfer consists of 167 sources (42.07%), the intralingual transfer consists of 105 sources (26.45%), the context of learning consists of 102 sources (25.69%), and the communication strategis consists of 23 sources (5.79%).
All of these indicate that the students are still low to sorrect English sentences.