CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents and discusses the background of the study, identification of the problem, limitation of the problem, formulation of the
problem, objectives of the study, and significance of the problem.
A. Background of the Study
English has been the most important foreign language in Indonesia. Instead of other foreign languages that have been taught in Indonesia, English has
been the most popular choice. Moreover, it has a significant role in the various fields, especially in technology, communication, politics, economy, education,
health, etc. Furthermore, English has been an important language in our life, it has
important role. English is compulsory subject for students of junior high school until university level. Therefore, students should be able to master English at least
in four skill areas; Listening, Speaking, Reading Writing, by mastering those four skills, English can be a means to develop the students’ knowledge, technology,
and culture. Writing is as one of the basic skills which has a vital part in language
teaching and students’ achievement. The focus of writing is started to arrange the simple sentence which is connected with conjunction to set the coherent idea from
the sentence to another. Those sentences are arranged logically to be united and cohesive.
The study of a good basic writing can be measured from the structure or grammar of student. The result of writing is determined with the number of
frequency of writing exercises. If the frequency of writing exercise is frequently carried out, certainly the student’s writing skill will be excellent. If writing
exercise is rare, writing skill will not be developed yet. Writing knowledge and exercise in Junior High School students must be
evaluated as early as possible to know whether their writing is structurally and
grammatically accepted or not. The research is intended to give the teacher input how to teach a good writing. The students are object of the research and teachers
are as the facilitator in teaching learning process. The knowledge of grammar is very important to express what we would to
say and interpret correctly, not only the basic meaning that someone said but also to force the utterance of piece of writing. Grammar keeps important role in
writing. However, the students’ ability in writing is still low. This can be proved that they still make mistakes and errors in writing English such as using
appropriate structure, plural-singular and other. Therefore, the writer is interested in identifying some students’ errors in
English writing by analyzing students composition of writing, so the writer will identify, describe and explain what kind of errors are commonly made by the
students in English writing. According to Corder 1967:167 in Brown stated that ”A learner’s errors
….. are significant in that they provide to the researcher evidence of how language is learned or acquired, what strategies or procedures the learner is
employing in the discovery of the language.”
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Based on the background of study above, the writer is interested in analyzing the grammatical error in writing which focuses on several areas, Lexical
error and grammatical error. whereas the title of this “skripsi” is “AN ANALYSIS ON STUDENTS’ ERROR IN ENGLISH WRITING AT THE 9
th
YEAR STUDENTS OF SMP ISLAM AL-IKHLAS CIPETE, JAKARTA SELATAN”.
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H. Douglas Brown, Principle of Language and Teaching, San Francisco : Prentice Hall Regents Englewood Cliffs, |NJ 07632, third edition, p. 205.
B. Identification of the Problem
