Findings .1 The Tables of Errors
meaningful writing. It will influence the meaning of the sentence; misspelling will change the meaning of the words.
This table shows the samples of the use of spelling
Error Word Reconstruction
71 Perents
Parents 72
Experiense Experience
73 Arived
Arrived 74
Becose Because
75 Villeg
Village 76
Antil Until
From the samples above, we can see that the student made error in writing. A good spelling influence the meaning in English, if the students made error when
they are writing in English, it will change the meaning of the word even meaningless. I think this error occurs because the students did not recognize that if they wrong in
writing text, it might say that the students still lack of understanding in using correct word. Thus, they should practice more in order to able be good in writing English.
4.2 Findings 4.2.1 The Tables of Errors
Table1. Kinds of Errors No.
Kinds of Errors Frequency
Percentage 1
Omission 337
26,1 2
Addition 281
21,7 3
Misformation 425
32,9 4
Misordering 249
19,3 TOTAL
1292 100
From table 1, it could be seen that the most dominant error that eleventh grade students of SMK Teladan Sumatera 1 Medan made is the error of
“misformation” with 32.9. It means most of students made errors in using grammatical in their writing test.
Table 2. The Errors of Misformation No. Kinds of Error
Frequency Percentage 1
Misformation of past tense 142
33,4 2
Misformation of adjective 24
5,6 3
Misformation of adverb 61
14,4 4
Misformation of article 17
4,0 5
Misformation of preposition 4
0,9 6
Misformation of possessive 34
8,0 7
Misformation of conjuction 42
9,9 8
Misformation of punctuation 5
1,2 9
Misformation of capitalization 49
11,5 10
Misformation of spelling 47
11,1 TOTAL
425 100
From Table.2 it could be seen that the highest error that students of eleventh grade students of SMK Teladan Sumatera Utara 1 made is the misformation in using
past tense with 33. It means that most students made error in using grammatical form of past tense.
Table 3. The Errors of Omission No. Kinds of Errors
Frequency Percentage 1
Omission of past tense 67
19,9 2
Omission ofadjective 25
7,4 3
Omission of adverb 42
12,5 4
Omission of article 46
13,6 5
Omission of preposition 30
8,9 6
Omission of possessive 16
4,7
7 Omission of conjunction
51 15,1
8 Omission of punctuation
32 9,5
9 Omission of capitalization
13 3,9
10 Omission of spelling
15 4,5
TOTAL 337
100 From Table.3 it could be seen that the highest error that students of eleventh
grade of SMK Teladan Sumatera Utara 1 made is the omission in using past tense with 20. It means that most students omitted “past tense” in their sentences.
Table 4. The Errors of Addition No. Kinds of Errors
Frequency Percentage 1
Addition of past tense 84
29,9 2
Addition of adjective 31
11,0 3
Addition of adverb 27
9,6 4
Addition of article 34
12,1 5
Addition of preposition 7
2,5 6
Addition of possessive 13
4,6 7
Addition of conjunction 38
13,5 8
Addition of punctuation 4
1,4 9
Addition of capitalization 21
7,5 10
Addition of spelling 22
7,8 TOTAL
281 100
From Table.4 it could be seen that the highest error that the students of eleventh of SMK Teladan Sumatera Utara 1 made is the addition past tense with
30. It means that most students made error is added “past tense” in their sentences.
Table 5. The Errors of Misordering No. Kinds of Errors
Frequency Percentage 1
Misordering of past tense 68
27,3 2
Misordering of adjective 36
14,5
3 Misordering of adverb
29 11,6
4 Misordering of article
0,0 5
Misordering of preposition 2
0,8 6
Misordering of possessive 0,0
7 Misordering of conjunction
51 20,5
8 Misordering of punctuation
0,0 9
Misordering of capitalization 0,0
10 Misordering of spelling
63 25,3
TOTAL 249
100 From Table.5 it could be seen that the highest error that the students of
eleventh grade of SMK Teladan Sumatera Utara 1 is the misordering in using past tense with 27. It means that most students made error is placing the part of speech
based on its function.
Table 6. General Errors No.
Kinds of Errors Frequency
Percentage 1
Misformation of past tense 142
11,0 2
Misformation of adjective 24
1,9 3
Misformation of adverb 61
4,7 4
Misformation of article 17
1,3 5
Misformation of preposition 4
0,3 6
Misformation of possessive 34
2,6 7
Misformation of conjuction 42
3,3 8
Misformation of punctuation 5
0,4 9
Misformation of capitalization 49
3,8 10 Misformation of spelling
47 3,6
11 Omission of past tense 67
5,2 12 Omission of adjective
25 1,9
13 Omission of adverb 42
3,3 14 Omission of article
46 3,6
15 Omission of preposition 30
2,3 16 Omission of possessive
16 1,2
17 Omission of conjunction 51
3,9 18 Omission of punctuation
32 2,5
19 Omission of capitalization 13
1,0 20 Omission of spelling
15 1,2
21 Addition of past tense 84
6,5
22 Addition of adjective 31
2,4 23 Addition of adverb
27 2,1
24 Addition of article 34
2,6 25 Addition of preposition
7 0,5
26 Addition of possessive 13
1,0 27 Addition of conjunction
38 2,9
28 Addition of punctuation 4
0,3 29 Addition of capitalization
21 1,6
30 Addition of spelling 22
1,7 31 Misordering of past tense
68 5,3
32 Misordering of adjective 36
2,8 33 Misordering of adverb
29 2,2
34 Misordering of article 0,0
35 Misordering of preposition 2
0,2 36 Misordering of possessive
0,0 37 Misordering of conjunction
51 3,9
38 Misordering of punctuation 0,0
39 Misordering of capitalization 0,0
40 Misordering of spelling 63
4,9 TOTAL
1292 100
From Table.6 it could be seen that the highest error that the students of eleventh grade of SMK Teladan Sumatera Utara 1 made is the misformation in using
past tense with 11. It means that most students made error in using grammatical form of past tense.