An Analysis Of Grammatical Errors In Students Descriptive Text Writing At The Eight Grade Student's Of SMPN 06 Jember 2023/2024 Academic Year

Soybeh, Soybeh (2024) An Analysis Of Grammatical Errors In Students Descriptive Text Writing At The Eight Grade Student's Of SMPN 06 Jember 2023/2024 Academic Year. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Soybeh, 2024: An analysis of grammatical errors in students’ descriptive text writing in the eight grade of SMPN 06 Jember

Keywords: grammatical error, descriptive text

The English language requires four skills to be mastered: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Writing is ranked last among the four skills. In making good writing, some aspects need to be considered, those are content, organization, vocabulary, grammar, and mechanics. this research focuses on analyzing the grammatical errors found in descriptive texts written by eighth-grade students of SMPN 6 Jember. Grammar is crucial in ensuring the coherence and meaning of English text, especially in descriptive writing, errors, whether minor or significant, can arise in the use of English to produce error free compositions. Hence, this research aims to describe and present the grammatical errors made by students. The research object comprises the daily assignment worksheets of VIII C students, speacifically focusing on their descriptive text compositions.
The research questions of this research was; 1) what are the types of grammatical errors in Descriptive text written by eighth graders at SMPN 06 Jember in the Academic Year 2023/2024?. 2) What are the couses of grammatical errors in Descriptive text written by eighth graders of SMPN 06 Jember in the Academic Year 2023/2024?.
This study utilized a qualitative approach to investigate the grammatical errors found in descriptive texts written by eighth-grade students at SMPN 6 Jember. The data for this research consisted of the students’ writing samples. The researcher utilized Document analysis as the data collection method, document analysis was employed by the research to compile and analysis the data. The analysis of grammatical errors made by the eighth-grade students was conducted using Dulay et al.’s surface strategy taxonomy. To determine the causes of these errors, the researcher applied the intralingual theory proposed by Richards theory. In analyzing the data, the researcher followed the steps outlined by Ellis. Additionally, investigator triangulation was employed to ensure the validity of both the data and the research findings.
The research findings revealed there are: 1. The types of grammatical errors present in the students’ worksheets: a) omission (e.g. My crush is very beautiful), b) addition, (e.g. She is one of the women who inspires to me), c) misinformation (e.g. He is from group Boy Story which is shaded by JYP), and d) misordering (e.g. Me and my family decided to go to the beach), the most common type of misinformation error. 2. The causes of the students' grammatical errors were identified as follows: a) over-generalization (the type of grammatical error involved was addition error); b) ignorance of rule restrictions (the causes involved were misinformation and misordering errors); c) incomplete application of rules (the causes involved were omission errors); and d) false concepts hypothesized (the causes involved were misordering errors).

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