Author (Penulis)

Siti Fatimah
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

12.1.01.08.0205

Abstract

ABSTRACT Article as a part of grammar takes important place in forming the meaning of sentence. The wrong use of article can affect the change of meaning from what the writer means. The use of article in a text should be given attention to avoid the difference perception between writer and reader. The purpose of this research investigated the errors of using article made by students in eleventh grade students of SMAN 5 Kediri in writing analytical exposition text. There were twenty students’ writing products that were analysed by using error analysis to find the type of errors and the most frequent error made by the students. In addition, the research also examined the factors influence the article errors. There were interlingual, intralingual, and context of learning that might affect the students’ errors in the use of article. The type of this research is content analysis. Qualitative approach was used to analyse the data. The data of article errors type and the most frequent errors on the use of articles were obtained by analysing 20 students’ writing in the form of analytical exposition text. There were omission, addition, and confusion type that analysed by using error analysis. The data of the most frequent error type was presented in percentage. Questionnaire was used to obtain the factors influenced the errors, was given to the students. The answers of questionnaire were analysed using Likert Scale by displaying in score form. The data of this research were displayed in the form of descriptive statistic. The research found errors in seven categories from 18 categories of article usage. Students made error in omission, addition, and confusion type. Addition type is the most frequent error made by the students by 63.158%. From interlingual, intralingual, and context of learning, intralingual factor takes the main causal in influencing the errors with overgeneralization as the major factor. KEY WORDS: writing, error analysis, article error.

Keyword

a

Reference

PUBLISHED

2017-02-08

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

ISSUE

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