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ANALYSIS ON GRAMMATICAL ERRORS MADE BY THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT (A Descriptive Study of the Eighth Grade Students at SMP 1 Jatibarang in the Academic Year of 2014/2015)
Keyword : descriptive analysis, grammatical errors, descriptive text.
This research is conducted to (1) describe the common errors in descriptive writing made by the eighth grade student of SMP N 1
Jatibarang, Brebes and (2) describe the causes of errors.
This population research is all of the eighth grade students of SMP N
1 Jatibarang, Brebes. The total numbers of the students are 240. The samples are students of class VIII consisting of 25 students. In this research, the researcher used Purposive Sampling Technique. In order to get data needed, the researcher asked them to describe a picture in descriptive text.
In describing the types of errors, it can be inferred that there are 201 items of errors, which occur in the sentences. They are analyzed based of the surface strategy taxonomy, It is found that 39 items or 39.4% errors are omission errors, 7 items or 7.2% errors are addition errors, 39 items or
39.4% errors are misformation errors, and 14 items or 14.1% errors are disordering errors. In describing the possible causes of errors, based on the comparative strategy taxonomy, it is found that 187 items or 93% errors is intralingual errors and 14 items or 7% errors is interlingual errors. So, it can be inferred that errors occurs in the student’s sentences is caused by lacks of grammatical understanding, and students more likely translate Bahasa Indonesia pattern into English without taking notice of grammar. So it is mostly caused by intralingual factor which is grammar and structure, and the appliance of Bahasa Indonesia pattern into English which make it interlingual errors.
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