An analysis of students’ grammatical errors in writing descriptive text at the Seventh Semester of TBI 1 IAIN Padangsidimpuan period 2020-2021

Lubis, Latifahannum (2021) An analysis of students’ grammatical errors in writing descriptive text at the Seventh Semester of TBI 1 IAIN Padangsidimpuan period 2020-2021. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research describes about an analysis of students’ grammatical error in writing descriptive text at the seventh semester of TBI 1 IAIN Padangsidimpun. There were some problems of the students in this research: 1) a certain number of the students have difficulty in generating and organizing the idea and make error in use of tense, they less understanding in the language features of descriptive text. 2) a certain number of the students stuck on vocabulary and less in grammar, it is make their writing becomes not good. The formulation of this research are: 1) What are the students’ grammatical errors in writing descriptive text at the seventh semester of TBI 1 IAIN Padangsidimpuan?. 2) What does the lecturer do to overcome the students’ grammatical error at the seventh semester of TBI 1 IAIN Padangsidimpuan?. Therefore, The aim of this research are: 1) To know what are the students’ grammatical errors in writing descriptive text at the seventh semester of TBI 1 IAIN Padangsidimpuan. 2) To know what does the lecturer do to overcome the students’ grammatical error in writing descriptive text at the seventh semester of TBI 1 IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The method of this research was a descriptive method of quantitative followed by qualitative research. The participants of this research are ten students of TBI 1 at the seventh semester. For collecting data the researcher used test and interview as the instrument of this research, and the researcher analyse the data by identified and classified types of grammatical errors that students made in writing descriptive text. Based on the result of research, it was known that there are four types grammatical errors: there were eight grammatical errors in using Noun (23,53%), there were twenty two grammatical errors in using verb (64,70%), there was a grammatical error in using article (2,94%), and there were three grammatical errors in using preposition (8,83%). The efforts of the lecturer to overcome the students’ grammatical errors in writing descriptive text, are: the lecturer asks the students to learn more about singular and plural noun, the lecturer explains more about the language features of descriptive text, the lecturer asks the students to study more about article, and the lecturer asks the students find some methods in learning preposition.

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