A Study of the Second Grade Students’ Grammatical Errors in Writing Descriptive Text at SMAN 6 Padang

Putra, Riko Candra and Lisa, Tavriyanti and Lailatul, Husna (2015) A Study of the Second Grade Students’ Grammatical Errors in Writing Descriptive Text at SMAN 6 Padang. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

The purpose of this research was to describe the types of grammatical errors made by the second grade students of SMAN 6 Padang in writing descriptive text. The design of this research was descriptive research. The population of this research was the second grade students of SMAN 6 Padang in academic year 2015/2016. The population members was 272 students; they were distributed into nine classes; class XI IPA 1, XI IPA 2, XI IPA 3, XI IPA 5, and class XI IPS 1, XI IPS 2, XI IPS 3, XI IPS 4.The researcher used stratified cluster random sampling technique to get the representative sample. The total number of sample members was 61 students. After calculating the test result, the researcher found that the degree of the coefficient of the test was .99 (very high correlation). The instrument used to get the data was writing test in the form of describing person. The researcher found the reliability of the test by using interrater technique. It was found that the coefficient correlation was very high (.99). It means that the result of the test was reliable. Then, the test was valid in term of content validity. The result of the data analysis showed that there are 490 items of grammatical errors which made by the second grade students of SMAN Padang in writing descriptive text about telling a person. They were 271 items of omission errors (55.28%), 95 items of addition errors (19.37%), 123 items of misformation errors (25.08%), and 2 items of misordering error (0.40%). To make it clear, there were 271 items of omission errors (55.28%). There were 30 errors of plural form (6.12%), 83 items errors of omission of s/es the third singular person (16,93%), 80 items error of omission of -be (16.32%), 2 item error of gerund (0.40%), and 76 items errors of omission of article(15.51%) (See Apendix 6), There were 95 items error in term of addition which consists of three types. There were 44 items errors of addition of verb form (8.97%), 45 items errors of addition of article (9.18%), and 6 items errors of addition of plural form (1.22%) (See Appendix 7).There were 123 items errors in term of misformation which consists of four types. There were 54 items errors of misformation of auxiliary verb (11.02%), 12 items errors of misformation of preposition (2.44%), 39 items errors of misformation of pronoun (7.95%), and 18 items errors of misformation of article (3.67%) (See Appendix 8).There were 2 items errors in term of misordering which consists of 1 type. It was 2 items errors of misordering of adjective (0.40%) (See Appendix 9). Finally, the students are expected to practice much harder in writing in the future. Besides, the researcher also gives suggestion to the teachers to pay more attention to the students’ grammatical errors in writing. Furthermore, the researcher suggests to the other researchers to find out other forms of grammatical errors made by the students in writing

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