AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT SMPN 3 GUGUAK, 50 KOTA
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ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to describe the second grade students’ errors in writing descriptive text at SMPN 3 Guguak, 50 Kota. The research design is descriptive, using quantitative approach. The population of this research was the second grade students of SMPN 3 Guguak, 50 Kota. Cluster random sampling technique was used in this research to collect the data and the sample was class VIII-1 which consists of 28 students. The instrument for collecting the data in this research was writing test. The students requested to write descriptive text with the provided themes for 60 minutes. To make the test reliable, the researcher used inter – rater technique. The reliability of the test is 0.99. It means that the test is reliable. Then, the test was valid in terms of content because the material about descriptive text has been covered in curriculum and learn by the students. The result of this research in general, showed that 25 (89.28%) students made errors in the form of omission, addition, misformation, and misodering. There were 16 (57.14%) students who made omission errors, 7 (25%) students made addition errors, 16 (57.14%) students made misformation errors, and 6 (21.42%) students made misordering errors. Based on the result, it can be concluded that the second grade students at SMPN 3 Guguak, 50 Kota still made errors in writing descriptive text. The teachers should give more explanation and exercises about writing descriptive text especially about the use of article, the use of be, the use of pronoun and the use of verb form because they still did not understand and were confused about all of them. And the students should improve their skill in writing descriptive text especially applying correct grammar. Further researchers are expected to find out and analyze the factors which cause the students make errors in writing descriptive text. Key words : error analysis, writing, descriptive textReferensi
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this research is to describe the second grade students’ errors in writing descriptive text at SMPN 3 Guguak, 50 Kota. The research design is descriptive, using quantitative approach. The population of this research was the second grade students of SMPN 3 Guguak, 50 Kota. Cluster random sampling technique was used in this research to collect the data and the sample was class VIII-1 which consists of 28 students. The instrument for collecting the data in this research was writing test. The students requested to write descriptive text with the provided themes for 60 minutes. To make the test reliable, the researcher used inter – rater technique. The reliability of the test is 0.99. It means that the test is reliable. Then, the test was valid in terms of content because the material about descriptive text has been covered in curriculum and learn by the students. The result of this research in general, showed that 25 (89.28%) students made errors in the form of omission, addition, misformation, and misodering. There were 16 (57.14%) students who made omission errors, 7 (25%) students made addition errors, 16 (57.14%) students made misformation errors, and 6 (21.42%) students made misordering errors.
Based on the result, it can be concluded that the second grade students at SMPN 3 Guguak, 50 Kota still made errors in writing descriptive text. The teachers should give more explanation and exercises about writing descriptive text especially about the use of article, the use of be, the use of pronoun and the use of verb form because they still did not understand and were confused about all of them. And the students should improve their skill in writing descriptive text especially applying correct grammar. Further researchers are expected to find out and analyze the factors which cause the students make errors in writing descriptive text.
Key words : error analysis, writing, descriptive text
