A GRAMMATICAL ERROR ANALYSIS ON DESCRIPTIVE TEXT MADE BY THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 1 NGAWEN KLATEN IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017

Chosnara, Tyarani (2017) A GRAMMATICAL ERROR ANALYSIS ON DESCRIPTIVE TEXT MADE BY THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 1 NGAWEN KLATEN IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017. Bachelor (S1) thesis, Universitas Widya Dharma.

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Abstract

CHOSNARA TYARANI, 1511202947, English Education Study Program, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Widya Dharma University, Klaten, 2017. Thesis: A Grammatical Error Analaysis on Descriptive Text Made by The Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 1 Ngawen Klaten in Academic Year 2106/2017. This thesis is written to achieve some aims as follows: (1) To describe the types of errors in writing descriptive text made by the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Ngawen Klaten in academic year 2016/2017, (2) To find out the highest error frequency that students make in constructing the descriptive text, and (3) To know the causes of errors made by the students in writing descriptive text. The method of this study is descriptive qualitative. This study was carried out at SMP Negeri 1 Ngawen Klaten. It was conducted on April 2017. The population of this study was the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Ngawen Klaten in Academic Year of 2016/2017. The class that was used in this study is 8C which consists of 32 students. The writer used metode simak to collect the data. The technique to analyze the data used in this study is error analysis. The steps of analyzing the data are collecting the sample, identifying the errors, describing the errors and explaining the errors. The result of the study shows that the total errors made by the students are 264 errors out of 32 descriptive texts. On the existing data, for the six types of errors in linguistic category, the writer finds 18 errors or 6.82% in article errors, 41 errors or 15.53% in adjective errors, 9 errors or 3.41% in adverb errors, 116 errors or 43.94% in verb/auxiliary/to be errors, 54 errors or 20.45% in noun/pronoun errors and 26 errors or 9.85% in preposition errors. From those data it can be seen that errors in the use of auxiliary verb/to be are the highest in percentage. For the four types of errors in surface strategy, the writer finds 64 errors or 24.24% in omission errors, 38 errors or 14.39% in addition errors, 142 errors or 53.78% in misformation errors and 20 errors or 7.59% in misordering errors. In those data, misformation errors take the highest percentage. The cause of errors can be classified into two categories; interlingual transfer and intralingual transfer. In this study, the writer finds that the source of the errors is mostly in interlingual transfer.

Item Type:	Thesis (Bachelor (S1))
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PE English
Divisions:	Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan > Pend. Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User:	Unwidha Perpustakaan Unwidha
Date Deposited:	28 Feb 2019 08:06
Last Modified:	28 Feb 2019 08:06
URI:	http://repository.unwidha.ac.id/id/eprint/813

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