Error Analysis of Student's Writing Descriptive Text at Second Grade of SMAN 1 Pesisir Tengah

Nur Choironi, Muhammad Sukirlan, Ujang Suparman

Abstract


Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis tipe kesalahan yang dibuat oleh siswa dalam teks deskriptif berdasarkan surface strategy taxonomy dan menemukan tipe kesalahan yang paling sering dibuat oleh siswa. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif. Subjek dari penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas XI IPA 1 yang berjumlah 32 siswa. Tugas menulis digunakan sebagai instrumen penelitian. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa siswa membuat empat jenis kesalahan berdasarkan surface strategy taxonomyyaitu penambahan, penghilangan, kesalahan bentuk dan kesalahan susunan. Selain itu, kesalahan bentuk adalah tipe kesalahan yang paling sering dibuat oleh siswa. Hal ini menandakan bahwa kemampuan siswa dalam menulis teks deskriptif dalam istilah surface strategy taxonomy perlu ditingkatkan.

The aim of this study is to explore the types of errors the students committed in their writing descriptive texts based on surface strategytaxonomyand types of errors most frequently committed by students. This research was qualitative research. The subjects of this research were32 students of eleven science class. The writing task was administrated as the instrument of the research.The result showed that the students committedfour types of surface strategy taxonomy:addition, omission, misformation, and misordering. Misformation was the type of errors the students most frequently committed.This suggests that thestudents ability in writing descriptive texts in terms of surface strategy taxonomy needs to be improved.

Keywords:erroranalysis, descriptive text, surface strategy taxonomy.


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