B. Identification of the Problem
Referring to background of problem above, there are many problems that can be identified among others: 1 the difficulties in arranging united and cohesive
sentences 2 using appropriate structure 3 choosing words and conjunctions to make a coherent sentence and etc., therefore, the writer would like to limit only on
lexical and grammatical errors, the writer would like to analyze them as follows: a What kind of mistakes do the students have?, b How many mistakes do they
have?, c How to change all the mistakes into the right one?
C. Limitation of the Problem
To avoid misunderstanding and clarify the problems, it is important to set some limitation of the problems. The writer will limit the problem of the
discussion on the analysis of the students’ errors in writing consist of lexical errors and grammatical errors. Lexical errors consist of word form and the use of
singular and plural noun.
D.Formulation of the Problem
Based on the background of the study describe above, the writer is interested in analyzing the error made by the students. The writer would like to
formulate the problem as follow: 1.
What kind of lexical errors are commonly made by the students? 2.
What kind of grammatical errors are commonly made by the students?
E. The objective of the study in this research are:
Inline with formulation of the problem stated above, the objectives of this study are as follow :
1. To investigate lexical errors that commonly made by the ninth year students
of SMP Islam Al-Ikhlas Cipete in their English writing. 2.
To investigate grammatical errors that commonly made by the ninth year
students of SMP Islam Al-Ikhlas Cipete in their English writing.
E.Significance of the Problem
The significances of this research are classified into : a theory and b practical 1.
Theory To give information about error analysis that always happen in students’
English writing, also as enrichment for teacher to adopt the concept and theory.
2. Practical students, teacher, headmaster
To deliver useful information for teacher and other researchers who are interested in analyzing error in writing, in order to lead them to further
research on the same field of study in different aspect. Moreover, students are able to write correctly and aware with their previous failure.
CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
This chapter presents and discusses about the theoretical framework which is consist of: Error analysis and English Writing
A. ERROR ANALYSIS
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