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1. INTRODUCTION
English is an international language which is very important to be mastered well. The national curriculum of Indonesia had undergone change several times. The latest curriculum of KTSP 2006
School Based Curriculum was applied in Indonesia. Changing curriculum had affected the national education system of Indonesia, it had not only affected the learning climate in the classroom but also the
readiness of the principle and subject teachers in effort to understand and apply curriculum in practice. SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Surakarta is one of vocational high school in Surakarta getting many
achievements in academic and non-academic aspects. SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Surakarta uses curriculum of KTSP 2006 School Based Curriculum as the Indonesia government had applied. When the researcher
teach in teaching apprentice PPL, researcher found weaknesses of students in English, especially in writing. They were able to speak but wrong in writing. Therefore, the researcher concluded that students
are not synchronized between speaking and writing.
The researcher found many cases of errors in writing skill from eleventh grande students at SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Surakarta. These are the examples of erroneous: I was
bon
in Surakarta. The example shows that the word
bon
is incorrect. The learner actually wants to write born but she made
mistakes in spelling. This error called wrong spelling. From these examples, the researcher decides to analyze the students error in SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Surakarta in their writing ability entitled An Error
Analysis on Descriptive Texts of Eleventh Grade Students at SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Surakarta 20152016 Academic Year.
According to James 1998: 78, if the learner is inclined and able to correct a fault in his or her output, it is assumed that the form he or she selected was not the one intended and that fault is a
mistake. If, on the other hand, the learner is unable or in any way disinclined to make the corection, we assumed that the form the learner used was the one intended and that is an error.
There are five previous studies in this research. The previous studies are taken from five researchers they are: 1 Rizky Edo Pratama 2015 entitled An Error Analysis in Writing Descriptive Text
Made by Eighth Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Masaran in 20142015 Academic Years, 2 Hestuningtyas Maharani Perdana 2015, the title of her research is Comparative Error Analysis in Writing
Recount Text Made by The First and The Third Semester Students of English Department UMS 20142015 Academic Year, 3 Hendita Leila Rahma 2015, the title of her research is Errors in Spoken Production Made by Students
in Microteaching Class of Departement of English Education of Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta in 20132014 Academic Year, 4 Rismanita Ayu Eka Saputri 2015 with her title Error Analysis of Oral Production Made by
English Departement Students in Microteaching Class at Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta and 5 Retno Widiastutik UMS, 2015 with her title Error Analysis on Descriptive Texts Made by The Eighth Grade Students at
SMP N 2 Colomadu in 20142015 Academic Year. The differences between this research and previous research are in the subject and object of the research and also the frequency of each type of errors and in
the dominant type of error.
Derived from the previous study, the difference is very clear in this research is revealing why students are less interested and do not like the English because of the absence intensivity between
teachers and students. Very unfortunate if students actually interested in English but they are not accompanied by the teacher writing because of their lack of knowledge. Teachers should further increase
the intensity of learning. 2.
RESEARCH METHOD
The researcher uses qualitative research because the researcher do not set hypothesis and test it but focus on analyzing after taking the data. The subject of the research is the eleventh grade students of
SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Surakarta. It consist of 31 students taken from XI Office Administration Affairs AP, Accountancy AK, and Marketing PM class.
The average of student’s age is 16 up to 17 years old and their background of language is Indonesia. The researcher takes erroneous on descriptive texts of
eleventh grade student for the object of the research from 31 student’s worksheet in writing descriptive
texts. The observation is done by the writer in teaching learning process during on January 08th – 11th,
2016. The researcher uses elicitation method in her research to get the data. The techniques for analyzing data taken from
Fauziati’s 2009 for description, James’ theory 1998 for classification, Dulay , et al.’s 1982, and Brown’s 1993 for sources of errors.
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3. FINDING AND DISCUSSION
