Grammatical Errors Found in Descriptive Texts Written The Tenth Graders of SMAN 1 Lawang

ABSTRAK Fatma, Nur . 2018. Grammatical Errors Found in Descriptive Texts Written The Tenth Graders of SMAN 1 Lawang. Thesis, Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang. Advisors: (1) Dr. Ekaning Dewanti Laksmi, M.Pd., M.A. (2) Prof. Dr. Gunadi Harry Sulistyo, M.A. Keywords: grammatical error, descriptive texts In learning a new language, learners cannot avoid commiting errors since errors become part of learning. The grammatical errors made by the students happen repeatedly in composing a written text especially in descriptive texts because the students are still interfered by the Indonesian language. The Indonesian students often find difficulties in writing because the grammatical rules between English and Indonesian language are different. The aim of this research is to describe and analyse the grammatical errors made by the tenth graders of SMAN 1 Lawang class X social 4 in writing descriptive texts. The data was collected from the students’ writing product by asking the students to write a descriptive text about tourism objects/historical places. The researcher provided five pictures of tourism objects/historical places and asked the students to choose one of the picture to be described. Then, the result of their writing was classified and analyzed using Surface Strategy Taxonomy proposed by Dulay et al. Errors were classified into four types: omission errors, addition errors, misformation errors, and misordering errors. The result of the data analysis is reported descriptively. The result in research finding showed that the students still commit many grammatical errors in writing a descriptive text since they were interfered by Indonesian language. They also directly translate the sentence from Indonesian language to English. There are totally 702 errors made by the X Social 4 students of SMAN 1 Lawang in writing descriptive texts. Omission errors are the most common type of errors made by the students with the frequency is 312 (44.4%). The second error found is the error of misformation happens 219 time (31.2%). The third is error of addition occurs 158 times (22.6%). The least occuring error is error of misordering that reaches 1.8% in the data analysis. Based on the result of the study, the researcher suggests that the English teachers should be more concern on sudents’ grammar competence by giving them a treatment called “grammar clinic” in order to help them in learning grammar