The Student’s Errors in Writing Descriptive Text at Seventh Grade Students of Junior High School Laboratorium Jambi City

F MARGARETTA SIAGIAN, F MARGARETTA SIAGIAN (2022) The Student’s Errors in Writing Descriptive Text at Seventh Grade Students of Junior High School Laboratorium Jambi City. skripsi thesis, Universitas batanghri.

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ABSTRACT Siagian,Margaretta,F.2022.”Student’s Grammatical Errors in Writing Descriptive Text At Seventh Grade Students Of Junior High School Laboratoriun Jambi City”. A Thesis. English Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education. Batanghari University. Advisor I : Dr. Yanti Ismiyati, S.Pd., M.Pd Advisor II : Ridho Praja Dinata, S.Pd., M.Pd Error is part of conversation or composition that is wrong from some received norm of language.Descrptive Text is the act making up correct in decribing something like person,things,place,animals and so on and transmitting them throught the visual medium,The formulation of the problem in this research is as follows:What kind of students errors in writting descriptive text found on the seventh grade of SMP Laboratorium Jambi city.The purpose of conducting this research is to know the student’s errors in writting descriptive text at seventh grade of SMP Laboratorium Jambi City.Design of this research is descriptive research.The population of this research are 10 students.And research uses total sampling technique.The data of this research were collected through documentation.The data were analyzed using descriptive quantitative.The found at the seventh grade of SMP Laboratorium Jambi City.They are using of tenses.The error in writing descriptive text the kind of errors the students made in writting descriptive text at seventh grade of SMP Laboratorium Jambi City.a few of students haven’t comprehended tenses that is used in writing descriptive text,and relevance,there are a few of students can’t make relevancy in writing descriptive text well. Students often make mistakes in writing descriptive texts about people, animals, objects, or procedures. When asked about the source of the error, they did not give a clear answer to the question, let alone an explanation of the source of the error. The purpose of this study was to analyze the types of errors made by students and find out why students made mistakes in writing texts. The method used in this study is a qualitative description. Fifteen seventh-grade junior high school students were the subjects in this study. Data collection was carried out by presenting tests to students to write three descriptive texts about people, animals, and procedures, and focus group interviews on finding out why students made mistakes. The data is based on seven indicators in writing, namely the title, main sentence, significant sentence development, sentence structure, grammar used, word use, and writing, and ten sources of errors that might cause students to make mistakes in writing. This study found that students made mistakes in describing people, animals, and procedures in the title, main sentence, significant sentence development, sentence structure, word choice, grammar, and mechanics. Meanwhile, the highest proportion of students' mistakes in writing is the students' indifference to their writing. Keywords: Grammatical, Errors, Writing Descrptive Text.

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