Institusion
Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji
Author
Rini, Fitriani
Erwin, Pohan
Nana Raihana, Askurny
Subject
411 Writing Systems/Sistem Tulisan, Penulisan
Datestamp
2021-07-28 06:10:22
Abstract :
The objective of this study is to know whether the students make errors, to
find the types of errors the students made, and to explain the most frequent errors
made by students in using simple present tense of their analytical exposition text
writings. The types of errors in this study is divided into four categories;
omission, addition, misformation and misordering.
In this study, the researcher used descriptive qualitative method to
describe students? errors and anlyzed the data by using formula which was done
by Keshavarz (2013).The data which was taken from writing test focused on
simple present tense students? analytical exposition texts. The subject of this study
is the eleventh grade students of SMAN 4 Tanjungpinang.
The findings showed that there are some errors made by the students.
After recapitulating the data, the researcher found the students made errors of
addition (11 errors or 40%), misformation (9 errors or 30%), errors of omission (6
errors or 16%), errors of misordering (5 errors or 14%).
The conclusions of this study are the eleventh grade students of SMAN 4
Tanjungpinang still make all of types of errors in using simple present; addition,
omission, misformation, and misordering. The most frequent error that students
made is the errors of addition (11 errors or 40%), then it is followed by the errors
of misformation (9 errors or 30%), the next is the errors of omission (6 errors of
16%), and errors of misordering (5 errors or 14%).