Scope: Journal of English Language Teaching
Vol 5, No 1 (2020): Scope: Journal of English Language Teaching

An Analysis of Students’ Grammatical Errors in Writing Descriptive Text by Using Picture of 7th-Grade SMPN 05 Tamansari

Dwi Irnawati (IKIP Budi Utomo Malang)
Erfina Rodiah Saputri (IKIP Budi Utomo Malang)
Lusia Linda Bili (IKIP Budi Utomo Malang)



Article Info

Publish Date
15 Nov 2020

Abstract

Writing is one of the abilities that students must have in learning English. But in reality, it is not as easy as we imagined, many students who still have difficulty in writing. They also make some errors in writing, such as errors in grammar. In this research, the formulation of the problem is about types of grammatical errors that students often make in writing descriptive text. The purpose of this study is to determine the grammatical errors that students make in writing descriptive text. The method used in this study was qualitative descriptive and the subjects of the study were all 7th-grade students of SMPN 05 Tamansari. The data collection techniques used were interviews and documentation. Based on the data analysis, findings have shown that the highest grammatical errors that students often make is in accordance to verb-verb groups (33.98%), the second is about sentence structure (12.11%), the third is noun-noun groups (10.15%), and the last is on the errors of preposition (7.17 %).

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Journal Info

Abbrev

SCOPE

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Subject

Arts Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other

Description

Scope: Journal of English Language focused to publish high-quality articles dedicated to all aspects of the latest outstanding research and developments in the fields of English Education. The scope of this journal encompasses to study of Curriculum, Technology, Media, and Innovation in Learning, ...