Author (Penulis)

FERRY TARIDA
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0078

Abstract

ABSTRACT English is a foreign language has different form from the indonesian language. Because it’s difference, when the students learn English, they oftyen make mistakes and even errors especially in writing. Usually they do not master the English structure well. In fact, making error learning English is a natural process and it can show the students competence in english. The research is used to identify and describe the types of errors made by the students on using simple present tense in writing descriptive text. Beside that, the writer wants to know the frequency of each error made by the students. The research design that used in this research is descriptive research. The population of this study was the eighth year students of SMPN 2 Papar Kediri in clas 8-B that consist of 32 students. In this research, the instruments used was writing test. The result of the analysis show that: (1) the errors in descriptive writing made by sthe eighth year of SMPN 2 Papar Kediri it was found that were 103 occurances of all errors. In term of each type errors of ommision 20,38 %. Errors of addition 21,35 %. Errors of misordering 28,15 %. Errors of misformation 33,98 %. (2) the writer try to find out causes of errors. The causes of errors are the interfere of mother tongue, the weakness of mastery the target language, vocabulary problem and trhe composition of writing such as grammatical and sentence structure, (3) The students were not being able to distinguish the differences of the use article, addition of suffix, singular, plural and the use of pronoun in their writing composition. Based on this research conclusion, it is that : (1) The teacher should give more knowledge and interesrt to the students on teaching simple present tense. (2) the teacher should give their students the technique of writing in a grammatically order. Keywords: errors, simple present tense, writing, descriptive text.

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Reference

PUBLISHED

2016-08-15

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

ISSUE

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