An error analysis of writing spoof text at Grade VII of SMP Negeri 1 Batahan

Arif, Safwan (2024) An error analysis of writing spoof text at Grade VII of SMP Negeri 1 Batahan. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research aims to determine the number of types of errors made by students in writing spoof texts. Apart from that, the researcher also wanted to investigate the most common mistakes made by students in writing spoof texts. This research uses a case study as the research design. To collect data, researchers asked students to write spoof texts about their funny stories and researchers gave interviews to English teachers to find out students' difficulties in writing English to support students' written texts. Participants in this research were an English teacher and 28 class VII students of SMP Negeri 1 Batahan. After conducting research, researchers found several findings; Judging from the number of types of errors, there are four main errors, namely omissions, additions, arrangement errors, composition errors, researchers found 2 major errors made by students. Furthermore, from the most common mistakes made by students in the misinformation category, they were confused about understanding the relationship with a frequency of 56.20%. Apart from that, there were 11.94% errors which were common errors in the surface addition strategy made by students

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