4 and written assessment, students also have to pay attention to the features or
characteristics of a descriptive text. The aim of this research is to discover the grammatical errors commonly
made by the students’ and their level of mastery in the five aspects of a descriptive writing, namely task fulfillmentcontent, organization, vocabulary, language, and
mechanics, and also to find out what can the teachers do to improve the students’ descriptive writing.
B. PROBLEM FORMULATION
The researcher in this research wanted to find out about the answer to these following questions:
1. What are the grammatical errors that the seventh grade students of SMP N 1 Muntilan
commonly made in their descriptive writing? 2. What can the teachers do to improve the students’ descriptive writing?
C. PROBLEM LIMITATION
This research focused on the grammatical errors; five aspects of a written work to evaluate the seventh grade students’ writing, namely task
fulfillmentcontent, organization, vocabulary, language, and mechanics in students’ descriptive writing; and also the teacher’s movement to improve the
students’ writing, in this case, descriptive writing. The subjects of the research were the seventh grade students and their
teacher in a public school, that was SMPN 1 Muntilan. There were six classes and PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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for regular class. However, the researcher decided to use only two of those classes as the subjects of the research, one from bilingual class and one from regular
class; since it was impossible to make use all of the classes. There were no specific reasons why the researcher chose bilingual class and bilingual class. From
those subjects, the researcher got the information that was needed to answer the questions mentioned before in the problem formulation.
D. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
This research was conducted as an attempt to discover the grammatical errors commonly made by the seventh grade students in writing descriptive text
by evaluating their writing based on the evaluative checklist which emphasized five major aspects of a piece of written work. This research also tried to find out
what the teachers did to improve the students’ writing.
E. BENEFITS OF THE STUDY
Hopefully, this study will be useful for the teachers that by knowing the students’ grammatical errors in some particular areas, for example on the subject
verb agreement, they can give more emphasis on that area, so that the students can minimize the errors they make.
This research can also help the next researchers or anyone else who feel interested in the same study especially in writing descriptive text, and will also
help the English Education students or people for the next research. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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F. DEFINITION OF TERMS 1. Descriptive writing
