Students’ error analysis in writing descriptive text at Grade X SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan

Pratiwi, Cicha Agustin (2023) Students’ error analysis in writing descriptive text at Grade X SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This study is intended to investigate the students’ error analysis in writing descriptive text at grade X SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan. The problem faced by students at SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan in the ability to write descriptive text are 1) differences in English and Indonesian structure and also they do not understand how to make a good writing, 2) the student are less in grammar, and 3) the student lack of vocabulary.This study has two formulations of the problems, they are what are the students’ errors made by students in writing descriptive text at grade X SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan?, and what is the dominant error made by students in writing descriptive text at grade X SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan?. The purposes of this study are to identify the students’ error made by students in writing descriptive text at grade X SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan, and to find out the dominant error made by students in writing descriptive text at grade X SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan.This study used qualitative research, which used descriptive method for investigating a variety of educational problems and issues. The population is all of the students at the tenth grade of SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan. The sample were X-4 that consists of 28 students. The data were collected through test about descriptive text, the kind of the text was essay test. The result of this study shows that the total errors committed by the students are seventy (70) items of errors. They are thirty one (31) items by omission of to be, article, third singular marker, plural marker, preposition, and noun. The next errors were fifteen (15) by addition of to be, article, third singular marker, plural marker, and preposition. The next errors are twenty items (20) by misformation noun and verb. The last errors are four (4) items by misordering of noun phrase. So, omission error is dominant error in writing descriptive text by students at Grade X SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan.

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