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AN ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS COMMITTED BY THE STUDENTS OF MTS NURUL HUDA SAWO IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS
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Institusion
Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha
Author
Ailinah, Banika Nur
Subject
PE English 
Datestamp
2022-02-22 01:30:10 
Abstract :
This study was conducted to investigate the grammatical errors on students’ descriptive texts. Grammatical errors were analyzed based on Dulay, Burt, and Krashen’s theory. It consisted of four types that they were omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. The subjects of this research were 30 students of the eighth grade students of MTs. Nurul Huda. The purposes of this research were to identify and describe the types of grammatical errors, the most type of grammatical errors made by the students and to investigate the sources of errors made by the students in writing descriptive texts. Qualitative descriptive was chosen as the research design. Writing tasks and hand-recorded notes were used as the instruments of the data collection. The result of this research showed that the number of writing errors occurred was 69 grammatical errors. Misformation error had the biggest percentage with the percentage of 57.98%, followed by Omission error with the percentage of 34.79%. Addition error was in the third position with the percentage of 4.35% while misordering error became the lowest errors with the percentage of 2.88%. Based on the result of the data, the teacher should pay attention to the students’ grammatical errors and encourage the students to learn grammar. 
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Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha