Analysis of students’ error in writing descriptive text at Semester One of English Departement IAIN Padangsidimpuan

Mardiah, Habibatul (2021) Analysis of students’ error in writing descriptive text at Semester One of English Departement IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The research focused about the students‟ errors in writing descriptive texts. There are four types of errors that researchers have analyzed from the students' writing, namely omission, addition, misordering and misformation.The purpose of this research is to describe the erroros of students at one semester of IAIN Padangsidimpuan in class 1 in writing descriptive texts, finding the dominant error, and describing the causes of the dominan error. This research describe the students‟ error in writing descriptive text. The kind of research was descriptive qualitative research. The sources of data from this research were students from IAIN Padangsidimpuan in class 1. The instrument are a writing test for students‟ made dominant error. The data is processed ton read the students writing‟ identify the students error, sign the students error, classify the students error, count the students error to get the dominant error, make conclusion and describe the result of research. Based on the result of the research, researcher found that students‟ error in writing descriptive text at Semerter One of English Departementof IAIN Padangsidimpuan have 51(49,51) items students‟ error by omission, there were 39(37,86) items students‟ error by addition, there were 5(4,85) items students‟ error by misformation, there were 8(7,76) items students‟ error by misordering. Then, the students‟ dominant error was caused by omission 51(49,51%).

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