AN ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN LEARNERS DESCRIPTIVE WRITINGS AT SMA AL-KAUTSAR BANDAR LAMPUNG
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Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mencari tahu jenis kesalahan yang siswa buat yang tergolong ke dalam surface strategy taxonomy dan communicative effect taxonomy dalam menulis karangan deskriptif, serta untuk menyelidiki jenis kesalahan yang sering dan jarang muncul pada karangan siswa tersebut. Penelitian ini bersifat qualitatif. Subjek penelitian ini adalah 24 siswa kelas XI IPA2 dari SMA Al-Kautsar Bandar Lampung. Tes menulis digunakan sebagai instrumen penelitian. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa siswa membuat semua jenis kesalahan dari surface strategy taxonomy, yaitu omission, addition, misformation, and misordering; maupun communicative effect taxonomy, yaitu kesalahan global dan lokal. Dalam surface strategy taxonomy, jenis kesalahan yang sering muncul adalah misformation; dan jenis yang jarang muncul adalah misordering. Dalam communicative effect taxonomy, jenis kesalahan yang dominan adalah kesalahan lokal, sedangkan kesalahan global merupakan jenis kesalahan yang jarang terjadi. Ha ini menunujukkan bahwa kesalahan selalu terjadi dalam penulisan siswa.
This study aimed at finding out the types of error that learners committed in terms of surface strategy and communicative effect taxonomies in their descriptive writings; and investigating which error types most and least frequently appeared in their writings. This study was a qualitative research. The subjects were 24 learners of class XI IPA2 of SMA Al-Kautsar Bandar Lampung. Writing test was used as the instrument. The findings revealed that the learners committed all error types in terms of surface strategy taxonomy: omission, addition, misformation, and misordering; and communicative effect taxonomy: global and local errors. In terms of surface strategy taxonomy, misformation was the most frequent error type, while misordering was the least frequent error type. In terms of communicative effect taxonomy, the most dominant error type was local error; while the least frequent error type was global error. This evidences that errors always occor in learners English writing.
Keywords: communicative effect taxonomy, descriptive writing, surface strategy taxonomy
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