FOR THE STUDENTS THE ABILITY TO WRITING THE TEXT DESCRIBED IN THE ELEVENTH CLASS OF THE KOSGORO SECONDARY SCHOOL. University Thesis Title: An Analysis of Noun Phrase Usage Error in the Descriptive Text Writing Ability of Students in the Eleventh Grade of Kosgoro Sekampung East Lampung Senior High School in the Academic Year 2015/2016. The purpose of this research is to recognize the main error and find the causes or sources of errors in the noun phrase in the writing of the descriptive text faced by the eleventh grade science students of Kosgoro Sekampung High School in the academic year 2015/2016. .
The sample of this research consists of 18 grade eleven students of Kosgoro Sekampung Senior Secondary School. In this regard, it is suggested that eleventh grade students of Kosgoro Sekampung Senior Secondary School should be given intensive exercises on the preposition of noun phrases in their writing. It is imperative that the eleventh grade students and the teacher of Kosgoro Sekampung Senior Secondary School are informed about the results of this research so that they can improve their teaching learning process.
Diharapkan informasi dari hasil penelitian ini dapat bermanfaat bagi siswa kelas 11 dan guru SMA Kosgora Sekampung sehingga dapat meningkatkan proses belajar mengajar.
INTRODUCTION
- Background of the Study
- Focus of the Study
- Problem Formulation
- Objectives and Benefits of the study
- Prior Research
In this research, the writer focused on students' errors in using noun phrase in writing descriptive text. The researcher limits the problem to the types of noun phrase errors made by the students of Kosgoro Sekampung Senior Secondary School, East Lampung. What are the noun phrase errors made by grade eleven students in writing descriptive text of Kosgoro Sekampung Senior Secondary School, East Lampung.
What is the dominant element of noun phrase errors in the descriptive text writing of students of Kosgoro Sekampung High School, East Lampung. The writer wants to find out the noun phrase mistakes made by eleventh grade students in writing descriptive text of Kosgoro Sekampung Senior Secondary School, East Lampung.
THEORETICAL REVIEW
- The Concept of Grammar
- Phrase
- The Concept of Noun Phrase
- Definition of Noun Phrase
- The Function of The Noun Phrase
- The Components of English Noun Phrase
- Concept of Writing
- Definition of Writing
- Kinds of Writing
- Process of Writing
- The Concept of Descriptive Text
- Concept of Error Analysis
The phrase in the first sentence is an expensive new car is a noun phrase because the head of the phrase is the noun "car" while in the second sentence he is working in the garden is a verb phrase because the head of the phrase is the verb "works". The phrase is classified into five, these are: Noun Phrase (NP), Verb Phrase (VP), Prepositional Phrase (PP), Adverbial Phrase (ADVP) and Adjective Phrase (AP). According to Hinkel the noun phrase includes several nouns, among which the first noun or two function as an adjective to describe the main noun or subject.8.
Yet the noun phrase has more than one word.11 The noun-headed noun phrase is often told by the article het or the indefinite article a or an. The other determiners are some, this, these that, that, both, etc., can also be used in the noun phrase. Noun is a group of words headed by a noun or pronoun that may be accompanied by modifications, determiners and/or additions.
Articles, possessives, quantifiers and numerals - include book in a noun phrase as their atte,ndant element. A simple technique for explaining the elements of a noun phrase is to practice identifying the main noun and all its parts. A noun phrase can be used as a subject, as an object of a verb or verb, as a subject or object complement, or as an object of a preposition.
There is not only pre-modifier and post-modifier, but there is also determiner in the formation of noun phrase. A noun head in a noun phrase can be accompanied by determiners (the, an, an, some, etc.) and other modifiers. The noun phrase is a phrase whose head has a noun, a pronoun, a nominal adjective or numeral.15 The main element of a noun phrase is called its head.
Based on the above explanation, it is clear that the noun phrase is the most complex phrase in English because it consists of many modifiers. Focus on specific participants: a particular class or thing, person or place (eg Queen Elizabeth, the times, the bus) rather than generalized participants (eg the royal family, the newspaper, the public, transport.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
- Type and Characteristics of Research
- Type of Research
- The Characteristics of Research
- Data Resource
- Data Collection Technique
- Documentation
- Observation
- Interview
- Data Analysis Technique
- Research Approach
The writer will observe the participants directly and record the data on the eleventh grade students of Kosgoro Sekampung Senior High School. In an interview, the writer conducts face-to-face interviews with participants over the phone, or engages in focus group interviews with six to eight interviews in each group.7 The writer must conceptualize the project, gain access, and make contact. In this study, the author will personally interview the 18 participants of the eleventh grade students of the Senior High School Kosgoro Sekampung.
The purpose of this research is to recognize the noun phrase variety error in descriptive text writing made by the eleventh grade students of Kosgoro Sekampung High School. After identifying the students' errors, the writer then counted the errors to find the dominant errors. In sentence (l) and (m), students failed to identify what type of preposition should be used in the sentence.
The frequency of the students' noun phrase errors in descriptive writing text based on the table above. Based on the students' results of researching the frequency distribution of noun phrase error in writing description, we can see that there are many errors made by the students. From the table above, the author concludes that the students' dominant errors were when they used pre-modifier of noun phrase especially in descriptive writing.
The main objective of this research is to analyze students' errors in dealing with noun phrases made by eleventh grade students of Kosgoro Sekampung Senior Secondary School, Lampung Timur in the academic year 2015/2016. Based on chapter IV, the writer found that there were 144 mistakes made by the students. The teacher should train the students with more exercises related to the noun phrase in writing the text.
RESULT AND DISCUSSION
Description of Research Setting
- Profile
- History
Description of Research Data
- Identifying Errors
- Dominant Errors
- The Distribution of Noun Phrase Error
To some extent, it can be generally accepted that the writer illustrates an object to the readers. In an objective description, the writer ignores those aspects of the insight that are unique to himself and concentrates on describing the observation itself. The qualitative research often goes to the participant's location (home, office) to conduct the research.3 It can be said that through qualitative research, the writer is more likely to do her research in many places she wants.
The researcher often goes to the research site to conduct the research. The writer collected some data from eleventh grade students of Kosgoro Sekampung High School, East Lampung in the academic year 2015/2016. In this research, the writer will take a document from the students' descriptive text, which is used to support the writer in analyzing some information related to the noun phrase skill.
So the reader of the report will understand clearly what is happening and how the process takes place in the activities. Then, unstructured interview includes the questions that arise from the situation.8 In this case, the author would use a structured interview that uses prepared questions about the use of nouns in writing descriptive text. The researcher will read all the data that has been collected and try to understand the text to find out the analysis data.
In this step, the researcher communicates the descriptive information of the tables and examples in paraphrases. In this step, the researcher takes the meaning of the found result from the data. All vision and mission aims to increase the development of the school.
After he finished identifying and classifying the types of errors, the writer made an error analysis to find out the dominant errors. To find out the error rate of each section, the writer had to do an error analysis.
Discussion
From the table above, it shows the number of head, premodifier and postmodifier errors used in students' descriptive writing. Based on the above table, we can see that the more of the students still found mistakes in noun phrases in descriptive writing. Especially in using premodifier is the lowest, the frequency of using premodifier is 52.78%, it means that many students do not understand well with noun phrase construction. We can see from the table above that the largest proportion of errors were premodifier errors.
In general, the students made such mistakes because they only copied rules from their mother tongue. It can be seen that premodifier errors made by the students were 52.78% of the total number of errors made by the students. By practicing a lot in writing, the students are trained to transfer their ideas to English.
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CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
Conclusion
Suggestion
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