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Grammatical errors made by eight grade students of SMPN 1 Ringinrejo in writing descriptive texts
This study was carried out to analyze and to classify the types and the sources of errors in writing descriptive text. The errors collected were classified based on Corder’s theory and the sources of errors collected were classified based on Brown’s theory. Besides, the purpose of this study were to find the types and causes of grammatical errors made by the eight grade students of SMPN I Ringinrejo in writing descriptive text.
The method used in this study was qualitative was qualitative approach of which the data were obtained from students’ descriptive writing. In this research, the writer used classification of errors based on Corder’s theory and classification of sources errors based on Brown’s theory. The grammatical errors were classified into four groups. They were errors in addition, omission, selection and miss-ordering. The sources of errors were classified into three groups. They were interlingual transfer, intralingual transfer and context of learning. The subject of this study was students of 8D class which consisted of 29 students.
The result of the errors analysis process showed that students committed errors into four types: addition, omission, selection and miss-ordering. The researcher concludes that students made 79 grammatical errors which were classified into; 10 errors in addition, 41 errors in omission, 28 errors in selection, 0 errors in miss-ordering. In sources of errors that students committed errors into three types: interlingual transfer (11 errors), intralingual transfer (5 errors), and context of learning (0 errors).
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