e. Preventingcorrection of error, finally the last step in the process of analysis is correction of error when the teacher
checks the result from the task done by the students. And then the teacher gives the correct answer from the errors has been
done by the students.
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6. The Technique of Data Analysis
The technique of data analysis used by the writer was descriptive analysis technique percentage, with the percentage from the frequency
of information and divided with the number of cases. The formula is:
Notes P = Percentage
F = Frequency of wrong answer
N = Number of sample
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B. RESEARCH FINDING
1. Data Description
The writer gave the test to get the valid data. She asked the students to transform simple present, present progressive and simple past
tense from affirmative into negative and interrogative form in order to analyze students‟ errors in their writing. Moreover, to know its result, the
writer made the table of students‟ errors. The writer identified their test
of results which are divided into five components, they are; verb tense, auxiliary, word order, omission and punctuation with classifying and
giving correction on each of sentences see appendices 6.
1
Theo Van Els and friends, Applied Linguistics and the Learning and Teaching of Foreign Languages, London: a Division of Hodder Stoughton, 1983, p. 47
2
Sudjiono Anas, Pengantar Statistik Pendidikan, Jakarta: PT Raja Grafindo Persada, 2007, p. 43
P= FN x 100
The table below is the recapitulation of students‟ error that
classifying based on the type of error, which is made by the students.
Table 4.1. The List of Recapitulation Result S
tudents’ Error in Simple Present Tense.
S tud
en t
Errors
T en
se s ve
rb te
n se
Auxi li
ar y Ve
rb
Wor d
Order Omiss
ion Pun
ctuation Fr
eq u
en cy of
E rr
or
1 14
- 17
20 10
61 2
14 -
17 20
10 61
3 6
5 -
- -
11 4
12 7
11 10
- 40
5 13
1 13
19 -
46 6
11 13
- 4
- 28
7 13
19 -
- 1
33 8
14 2
9 19
5 49
9 12
2 8
13 -
35 10
10 5
9 11
- 35
11 -
3 -
- -
3 12
12 19
- -
- 31
13 11
12 3
2 -
28 14
4 13
2 5
- 24
15 14
1 8
19 -
42 16
2 4
- -
- 6
17 1
- -
- 1
2 18
12 15
- -
1 28
19 12
4 -
- -
16 20
11 5
14 14
10 54
