Students‟ error in writing personal letter at grade XII MAS Babussalam Basilam Baru Tapanuli Selatan.

Harahap, Sri Sulastri (2020) Students‟ error in writing personal letter at grade XII MAS Babussalam Basilam Baru Tapanuli Selatan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The problem in this research was the student confused how to write personal letter based on the grammatical well. So, they still made error in writing personal letter. General problem that faced by the student in writing personal letter is the students still made error in writing tenses and verb. The reasons why the students made error in personal letter are because less in grammar mastery and confuse to using to be. This research have three formulation of the problem, namely, what are the students error, what is the students dominant error and what will be the teacher effort to solve the students error. The purpose of this research to find out the students error, to find out the students dominant error and to know what will be the teacher effort the students error This research conducted through qualitative research which use descriptive method. Source of data from this research are students‟ from MAS Babusaalam Basilam Baru Tapanuli Selatan in class XII IPA with the total twenty students. The instrument of this research is writing test and interview. The data is processed to read students‟ writing, identify the students‟ error, sign the students‟ error and students‟ error, make conclusion and describe the result of research. Based on the result of the research, researcher found that students‟ error in writing personal letter were in omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. There were seven items error made by students, they are: To Be, Article, Plural, Preposition, Verb Tense, Pronoun and Noun Phrase. The number of omission error was 24 . The number of addition error was 7. The number of misformation erorr was 23. The last is the number of misordering error was 14. Total all of the errors were 68. The biggest total percentage was in omission which in writing the body of the letter. Researcher concluded that the dominant errors made by students in writing personal letter was in omission category with the percentage 35. 29%

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