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E. Objective of the Study
In line with the statement above, the objectives of study are:
1. To find types of error are made by the students in using adjective in
descriptive text writing. 2.
To find source of the reason why the students made error in using
adjective in descriptive text writing.
F. The Significance of the study
The findings results of this study are expected to give useful information on
students’ errors which in turn, it can help teachers to correct the students’
errors and also to improve methods or ways of their teaching.
The writer hopes that this study will give significant input to the students, to know and understand the differences English structure and Indonesian for
writing their ideas in English.
CHAPTER II THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
This chapter will be focused on the discussion about the concept of error, error analysis, and descriptive text.
A. Error
1. Definition of Error
Various definitions of error have been presented by experts. Basically those definitions contain the same meaning while the difference lies only
on the ways they formulate them. These definitions are adequate to reveal the errors showing up in the written texts. According to Norrish, he said
that Error is a systematic deviation, when a learner has not learnt something and consistently get it wrong. He said the child his own
language sometimes make the same error. In the same way, when a learner of English make an error systematically. So, he has not learnt the correct
form.
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In the other, Dulay said “Errors are the flawed side or learner speech or writing. They are those parts of conversation or composition that deviate
from some selected norm of mature language performance. Teacher and mothers who have waged long and patient battles against their students or
children’s language errors have come to realize that making errors is an inevitable part of learning. People cannot learn language without first
systematically committing errors”.
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J. Norrish, Language Learning and Their Errors, London: Macmillan Publisher Ltd, 1987, p. 7
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Heidi Dulay, et al, Language Two, New York: Oxford University Press, 1982, p. 138.
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