Praise and thanks be given to Jesus Christ who always blesses and gives strength to the writer to complete this thesis which is titled "An error analysis of language feature in descriptive text writing of students in the seventh grade of SMP Catholic Tanjungpinang". She would like to express her gratitude to many people who have given their suggestions and helped her in writing this skripsi. Abdul Malik, M.Pd., as Dean of the Faculty of Training and Teacher Education of Raja Ali Haji Maritime University.
Also her beloved brothers and sisters: Ebon Suhardo Simanjuntak, Emi Burton Simanjuntak, Ellys Fungsi Sari and Lamtiur Delima Simanjuntak who always support and motivate her to finish this skripsi. Tanjungpinang: English Education Study Program, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji. This study analyzed language errors in students' descriptive text written by 29 seventh grade students.
The participants were seventh grade students of SMP Katolik Tanjungpinang in the second semester of the 2018-2019 academic year.
INTRODUCTION
- Background of the Problem
- Identification of the Problem
- Limitation of the Problem
- Research Questions
- Purpose of the Research
- Significance of the Research
- Definition of the Key Term
This means that the descriptive text describes the situation or condition of people, place or things in a text. Based on the identification of the problem, the researcher limits the problem to language errors in descriptive text writing. What mistakes do the students make in seventh grade language course in SMP Katolik Tanjungpinang dealing with descriptive text.
What are dominant errors on language feature made by seventh grade students of SMP Katolik Tanjungpinang dealing with descriptive text. To find out the mistakes on language feature made by seventh grade students of SMP Katolik Tanjungpinang dealing with descriptive text. To know the dominant errors on language features made by seventh grade students of SMP Katolik Tanjungpinang dealing with descriptive text.
This research is expected to contribute through error analysis in the text of students in writing descriptive text in academic purposes to determine errors and dominant errors made by junior high school students.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Review of the Related Theory
- Writing
- Descriptive Text
- Language Feature
- Error Analysis
From the definition above, the researcher constructs that writing is produced something that follows the stage of language, conveys information sequentially in a new language and produces thoughts in symbolic form, elaborating on what someone wants to write. This means that the descriptive text is the text that depicts something about people, animals, things or surroundings and how they look. The purpose of descriptive text is to explain, describe or express someone or an object (English lesson).
I know it's a very small house, but it's the best place I've ever seen. Type of language function in descriptive text from English lesson Language function in descriptive text. It refers to the fact that something important is missing in a sentence, e.g. "open door", it must add the article "the" before a door.
It refers to the item being presented in the correct but incorrect word order in sentences.
Relevant Studies
Grammatical Errors in English Essays Written by Thai Undergraduate EFL Students” Using Purposive Sampling Method. The third one is a research written by Mabuan (2015) entitled “Analysis of Grammatical Errors in Weblogs of Filipino ESL Learners” using an integrative approach. The fourth study was written by Furtina, Fata, and Fitrisia (2016) titled “Grammatical Errors in a Writing Task: Male vs. Female” using a descriptive study.
The purpose of this research was to compare the types of grammatical errors that are dominantly found in writing assignments for male and female students at one of senior high school Banda Aceh. Based on some related findings from a thesis and a journal, the first researcher focused on students' grammatical errors. The second researcher focused on examining the effects of L1 interference on detected grammatical errors.
The third researcher focused on identifying, categorizing and analyzing grammatical errors in students' blog posts.
Conceptual Framework
RESEARCH METHOD
- Research Design
- Setting of the Study
- Research Instrument
- Research Subject
- Research Schedule
- Technique of Data Collection
- Technique of Data Analysis
After that, the researcher described and explained the types of errors of students' writing and dominant errors that students made in writing descriptive text. First, the researcher instructed the students to write descriptive text on papers with the theme "my family" in three paragraphs. The researcher concluded that half of the students made a mistake with the adjective used in descriptive text.
The researcher concluded that almost all the students made mistakes in using simple present tense. In this chapter, the researcher focused on the description of the data as the result of research on students' error in writing descriptive text. Students' sentence "My little sister and I like to play smartphone" they add dual participants my sister and I.
Finally, mistake in choosing verb and verb "to be" in their sentences like "My mother has long hair" it should be "my mother has long hair" because for subject she, he, and it should use the verb didn't have
FINDING AND DISCUSION
Data Description
- Error of Specific Participants
- Error Use of Adjective
- Error of Simple Present Tense
- Error of action verb
Findings
The result of the research, described in the table, classified the recapitulation of students' errors in writing a descriptive text. The students' total descriptive text writing errors were 164 points for the error of definite participant, adjective, simple present tense used, and action verb. Based on the above percentage result, the researcher found that the seventh grade students of SMP Katolik Tanjungpinang made errors of definite participant (6.70%), used adjective (13.41%), used simple present tense (78.65%) and action verb. (1.21%).
Discussion
- The Error of Specific Participant
- The Error Use of Adjective
- The Error of Simple Present Tense
- The Error of Action Verb
Based on the above explanation, the researcher analyzed and concluded that half of the students made mistakes in using specific participants in their descriptive text by adding and incorrectly selecting the specific participants in their descriptive text. From the above explanation, the researcher analyzes and concludes that students made mistakes in adding and misselecting in the use of adjectives in their descriptive text. The researcher found many sentences that did not conform to the simple present tense pattern.
In absence, some students did not add important elements in their sentences such as adding the verb "to be", part of the verb and object in their sentences. Also, students made mistakes by adding irrelevant elements to their descriptive text by adding the verb "to be". Example: "She is like cooking in the kitchen and listening to music" add the verb "to be" and make the sentence incorrect.
From the above explanation, the researcher analyzes and concludes that almost all the students made mistakes in using the simple present tense pattern. From the above explanation, the researcher analyzes and concludes that the students very rarely made a mistake in using the action verb. As the researcher explained in the first chapter, the researcher limited the study to the analysis of students' errors regarding language features in the seventh grade of SMP Katolik Tanjungpinang, which deals with descriptive text.
To analyze it, the researcher uses the classification mentioned by Mahmoud (2014): omission, addition, wrong selection and wrong ordering. Regarding the research question in chapter 1, the researcher concludes that the seventh grade students of SMP Katolik Tanjungpinang made errors of the specific participant, the adjective, the use of the simple present tense and the action verb in their sentences and the dominant one it was the error of simple usage. Present simple. It is proven by the result of the percentage of students' mistakes in the present simple tense, it got 78.65%.
The students are still high school students in their first year, so they are still learning how to learn English better, and the researcher appreciates it. The researcher found that many types of errors are outside the focus of the researcher committed by the students. The other researcher can use a different technique to collect the data because in this research the researcher only collected the descriptive text test writing from the students.
KEMAMPUAN SISWA DALAM MENULIS TEKS NARASI (Studi deskriptif di SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Wanadadi tahun ajaran UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH PURWOKERTO.
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
Conclusion
Suggestion
Error is normal for EFL students to use English because English is not their mother tongue. Although, students should and improve their writing to arrange good sentence by looking at the pattern of grammatical in English. The teacher should increase their teaching program, and focus from the basics of English language such as how to use to be with the correct subject, vocabulary with correct spelling, and handling simple present tense with the real pattern.
Also, the teacher should be creative in the use of media and tools in the learning process and keep up with technology to make students more interested in learning English as an international language in the world. For students, they will be aware of their writing weakness, but don't be discouraged because mistakes are natural things for EFL students. And students should also pay more attention to their mistakes and improve them.
And always happy and enjoy learning English because it will be useful in the future. The student can improve their vocabulary from music, film or video lessons that were delivered in electronic media like YouTube and so on. This research was about an error analysis of language features in descriptive text by seventh grade students.
It was expected that other researchers would use the result of this study as additional reference for further research. These are errors about the use of the correct article, To Be, possessive adjective, plural and singular, and suffix. Pascoal Marcal Belo “an analysis of grammatical errors in written descriptive text by the first year students of the vocational school of economics and commerce Becora – Dili in the school year.
Improved Approach to Predicting the Strength of Energetic Materials, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pr. Definition and examples of analysis in composition.https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-analysis-composition- 1689091.
Times of Study
Research Schedule
Students’ Error of Specific participant…
Students’ Error of Adjective Use
Students’ Error of Simple Present Tense Use
Students’ Error of Action Verb
Recapitulation of Students Error
