An Error Analysis of Using Simple Present Tense in Descriptive Text Written by The Eighth Grade Students of MTs Negeri Kota Sorong

Authors

  • Hadi Prakoso English Education Department, Faculty of Education, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Sorong, Indonesia

Keywords:

Error analysis, Simple present tense

Abstract

English is a foreign language in Indonesia, so the students in Indonesia are not far from the error when writing in English. This study aimed to find out  the  types  of  error based on surface strategy taxonomy and  the  sources  of errors based on the Norrish’s theory  those  were  made  by the eighth students of MTs Negeri Kota Sorong. The participants consist of 17 students and an English teacher. The method of this research is qualitative method with descriptive  analysis  technique,  and   then  the  instruments to collect the data were descriptive test assignment and interview. The data  analysis  used  Ellis’s  procedure  and used percentage. The result showed that the highest percentage of error type that made by the students was omission with 66 errors or 42,85%, and then  the  lowest error types were addition and  misordering  with  13  errors or 8,44%. It was because the students did not use article, suffix –s/es, and to be. And  then,  the  highest  sources  of error that was made  by  the  students  were  Carelessness with 114 errors or  74,02% and  the lowest source of error was first language with  18  errors  or  11,68%,  it  was because the students did  not  pay  attention  while  writing the text

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2024-05-05

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Prakoso, H. (2024). An Error Analysis of Using Simple Present Tense in Descriptive Text Written by The Eighth Grade Students of MTs Negeri Kota Sorong. Transcript: Review of English Teaching and Learning, 1(1), 10–28. Retrieved from https://e-jurnal.iainsorong.ac.id/index.php/Transcript/article/view/1586

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