International Journal of Educational Research Excellence (IJERE)
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025): January-June

An Examination of Seventh Grade Students' Mistakes in Adjective Usage in Descriptive Writing at SMPN 1 Bandar

Sitanggang, Anita (Unknown)
Nababan, Irene Adryani (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Jan 2025

Abstract

This research was intended to find out the types of error in using adjective in writing descriptive text made by the seventh grade students of SMPN 1 BANDAR. This research was conducted at SMPN 1 BANDAR. This research was used quantitative approach and content analysis was employed as the research methodology. The total participants of this research were thirty-three students taken from eight grade of SMPN 1 BANDAR by using purposive sampling. In collecting the data, the researcher used a descriptive writing test. The errors were collected, identified and classified based on Dulay’s (1982) Surface Strategy Taxonomy (SST) which consisted of four types of error namely omission, addition, misformation, and misodering. The results showed that there were four types of errors made by students in descriptive writing, there were: 1) omission (25,80%), 2) addition (22,58%), 3) misformation (25,80) and 4) misordering (25,80%). This research indicated that misformation was the highest error made by students.

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ijere

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

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Welcome to the International Journal of Educational Research Excellence (IJERE), ISSN. 2830-7933 (Online). IJERE is the first open access and double-blind peer-reviewed international journal managed by PT Inovasi Pratama Internasional, which exclusively focuses on education and Education technology. ...