Author (Penulis)

TINDY BRILYAN RASMANINGTYA
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

13.1.01.08.0028

Abstract

Writing can be mastered only through learning activities and exercises, because it is need more time to think and needs serous attempt to acquire it. Even though they have studied English for many years, they still make many errors when they write. The teacher should be aware of this problem and prevent students from making some error by analyzing the learners’ error itself. This research aimed to describe the types of errors and to describe the causes of errors made by eleventh grade students in using simple present tense in writing report text. In doing the research, the researcher uses content analysis which explains the data in qualitative. This research was conducted at SMAN 7 Kediri on August 2017. The subject of this research was XI IPS-1 of SMAN 7 Kediri, this class consists of 30 students. In collecting the data, the researcher used written test of report text about familiar animal and also used questionnaire. She used surface taxonomy for analyzing the data. The result shows that students made four kinds of error based on the surface taxonomy: omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. And the causes of students’ error in simple present tense: interlingual, intralingual, context of learning and communication strategy. Acknowledging the appropriate theories of giving feedback to students would be useful to help them to get through their problems. Keywords: Error analysis, writing, report text

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PUBLISHED

2017-08-31

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

ISSUE

Vol. 01 No. 04 Tahun 2017

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