Rini, Fitriani and Erwin, Pohan and Nana Raihana, Askurny (2019) An Error Analysis in Writing An Analytical Exposition Text by Students at SMAN 4 Tanjungpinang. S1 thesis, Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji.

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Abstract

The objective of this study is to know whether the students make errors, to find the types of errors the students made, and to explain the most frequent errors made by students in using simple present tense of their analytical exposition text writings. The types of errors in this study is divided into four categories; omission, addition, misformation and misordering. In this study, the researcher used descriptive qualitative method to describe students’ errors and anlyzed the data by using formula which was done by Keshavarz (2013).The data which was taken from writing test focused on simple present tense students’ analytical exposition texts. The subject of this study is the eleventh grade students of SMAN 4 Tanjungpinang. The findings showed that there are some errors made by the students. After recapitulating the data, the researcher found the students made errors of addition (11 errors or 40%), misformation (9 errors or 30%), errors of omission (6 errors or 16%), errors of misordering (5 errors or 14%). The conclusions of this study are the eleventh grade students of SMAN 4 Tanjungpinang still make all of types of errors in using simple present; addition, omission, misformation, and misordering. The most frequent error that students made is the errors of addition (11 errors or 40%), then it is followed by the errors of misformation (9 errors or 30%), the next is the errors of omission (6 errors of 16%), and errors of misordering (5 errors or 14%).

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