Students’ error analysis on using simple present tense in writing descriptive text at grade XI MIA 4 of MAN Panyabungan

Nasution, Nur Intan (2018) Students’ error analysis on using simple present tense in writing descriptive text at grade XI MIA 4 of MAN Panyabungan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research is taken based on fact that of students’ error on simple present tense in writing descriptive text at grade XI MIA 4 of MAN Panyabungan. The aim of the research is to analyze the students’ error on simple present tense in writing descriptive text, the types of error in simple present tense in writing descriptive text and the reason of students’ error is still occur on using simple present tense in writing descriptive text at grade XI MIA 4 of MAN Panyabungan. The kind of this research is qualitative approach by using descriptive method. The sources of the data are taken from two sources; they are primary and secondary source. The primary source is the data from class XI MIA 4 of MAN Panyabungan there are 41 students and the secondary source ia the data from the English teacher of MAN Panyabungan. The technique of collecting the data uses test and interview. Based on the research result, the researcher found the students’ error on simple present tense in writing descriptive text was enough (42, 27%) that can be classified to the categorize into enough categories and the dominant type was in addition with 46 errors (44, 23 %). The reason of students’ error on simple present tense in writing descriptive text were the students have not understand the simple present tense well, the students were confuse to differ between nominal, active verbal, and passive verbal in positive, negative, and interrogative form. The students forgot the formula and the rule of simple present tense especially when they were writing descriptive text, the students lack of vocabulary.

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