Analisis Kesalahan Tulisan Siswa Pada Teks Deskriptif Pada Siswa Kelas Sepuluh Di MA DDI Tosale

Moh Miftah Farid, A12119005. “Error Analysis on Students’ Writing of
descriptive text of The Tenth Grade students of MA DDI Tosale”. Skripsi, Faculty
of Teacher Training and Education, Department of Language and art Education,
English Education study program, under Supervision of Nadrun and Hastini.
English language learners often make errors in terms of linguistic features when
writing descriptive paragraphs. In this study, the researcher focuses on the
examination of language features. The primary objective of this study was to
identify the writing errors made by students when composing descriptive texts and
determine the most prevalent error category according to the surface strategy
taxonomy. The researcher employed a quantitative descriptive approach for this
investigation. The study's target population comprised tenth-grade students at MA
DDI Tosale. The research sample was selected using a complete sampling
technique and included 30 students from both the tenth-grade IPA and IPS classes.
The data analysis revealed that students made various types of errors, including
omissions, additions, misordering, and misformations. Data collection was carried
out through a descriptive text writing test. The most frequent error category
identified was misformation, with 131 instances, while the least frequent error
category was misordering, with only 48 occurrences. Furthermore, interlingual
error was the highest source of students’ errors, with a total of 120 (53%) causes,
and context of learning became the least frequent of source of students’ errors with
only 15 (7%) causes. In summary, based on the study's findings, it can be deduced
that misformation errors were the most common, while misordering errors were the
least common among the students' writing errors in descriptive texts.
Key words: Error analysis, writing, descriptive text