Author (Penulis)

MAHENDRA ARIS WIJAYA
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0118

Abstract

ABSTRACT Writing is an important skill in language learning for a learner to communicate ideas to people beyond their immediate vicinity. But in fact, the students always make errors in writing, especially in descriptive text. This error usually happen when the students tried to arrange the sentence with a good grammar and another writing components. This research is aimed to describe the common errors in using simple present tense in a descriptive text written by the seventh grade students of SMPN 5 Kediri and to describe the possible causes of simple present tense errors in a descriptive text written by the seventh grade students SMPN 5 Kediri. In this research, the researcher used content analysis because it is used to analyze the text.The data were gained through test and questionnaire. Then, the researcher analyzed the students’ work and classifying errors based on types of errors. The result of test was calculated and analyzed based on surface strategy taxonomy to get the total of errors and frequency. Furthermore, the researcher gave questionnaire to the students to know the possible causes of error. The questionnaire was based on the four causes of error and the researcher was calculated the total score of each types to get the most possible causes of error. The finding showed that there are 110 items of erors which occur in students’ sentence. It is found that 25 items or 23% errors are omission, 11 items or 10% are addition, 61 items or 55% are malformation, 13 items or 12% are disordering. For the questionnaire, the researcher found the highest point of questionnaire indicates the interlanguage as the greatest error sources that faced by the seventh grade students of SMPN 5 Kediri. The conclusion based on the research result data, most students were made the descriptive paragraph in the wrong form and they still influenced by their mother tongue in their writing descriptive text. As a suggestion, the teacher should give some writing exercise to the students, especially how to make a sentence in a grammatically correct sentence based on English structure. Also the recomendation to the students, they should study more hardly in forming of possessives pronoun in object and in adding –s/-es to the verbs which the third person singular subject. Keywords: Error Analysis, Writing Descriptive Text

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Reference

PUBLISHED

2016-01-04

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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