Author (Penulis)

Uswatun Hasanah
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

12.1.01.08.0156

Abstract

In learning English, the students always face many problems, especially in mastering writing skill. It is because writing skill is a complicated skill and there are a lot of rules that should be noticed by the students, including the use of tense. In this case, the students still confuse to use simple present tense correctly in writing descriptive text. Therefore, they make many errors in their writing The aims of this research are : (1) to identify the types of errors do the students make on using simple present tense in descriptive text writing and (2) to describe the sources of errors that the students make on using simple present tense in descriptive text writing. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative research. The instruments of this research are : students’ writing task and questionnaire. Students’ writing task used to know in what aspect the students make the errors. Meanwhile, the questionnaire used to know the students’ sources of errors. The subject of this research is the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Pace on class X-3. In this resarch, the researcher used observation and documentation in collecting the data. It means that the researcher played non participant observation by asking the students’ learning activities and documentation by analyzing the students’ writing task about descriptive text and the questionnaire. From the result of the data analysis, the researcher found that the total number of error was 134 errors which consist of 67 or 50% for omission errors, 14 or 36,57% for addition errors, 49 or 36,57% for misformation errors and 4 or 2,99% for misordering errors. In addition, for the sources of errors, the researcher found that the significant sources of errors was interlingual transfer because there are 32,15% students are strongly agree and 67,86% students agree with the statement that their first language (Indonesian) is still influence them. Based on this result, it can be concluded that the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Pace make a lot of errors because they are still influence by their mother tongue (Indonesia). Therefore, the researcher suggests that the teacher should give more explanation about simple present tense and how to make a good sentence in English.

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PUBLISHED

2017-02-08

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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