ERROR ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL PHARMACY IKASARI PEKANBARU

Agi Ferianda (2022): Error Analysis of Students Writing Descriptive Text at Vocational High School Pharmacy Ikasari Pekanbaru Based on preliminary study, it was found that the students of Vocational High School Pharmacy Ikasari Pekanbaru, especially at the tenth grade students still had problems in writing, mostly because of the students’ lack of knowledge about vocabulary, grammar, and do not understand well how to write descriptive text correctly. The objectives of this research were to describe kinds of errors and to find out the dominant error made by the students of Vocational High School Pharmacy Ikasari Pekanbaru in writing descriptive text. The design of this research was descriptive quantitative. The population of this research was the tenth grade students (238 students) of Vocational High School Pharmacy Ikasari Pekanbaru. The total numbers of sample were 35 students (15% from 238 students). In data collection, researcher used documentation obtained from the teacher. The result of the research shows that there were77 errors made by the students’ in writing descriptive text, consist of 12 (15.58%) errors of omission, 10 (13.98%) errors of addition, 55 (72.42%) errors of misformation, and no error of misordering. Lastly, the error of misformation is became the dominant error made by the students of Vocational High School Pharmacy Ikasari Pekanbaru in writing descriptive text