Time and Location of Research Method of Research Population of Research

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2 1 - 2 3 3 1 - - T 32 34 123 57 39 68 33 22 37 60 42 23 14 4 T 588 errors Note: S : Student S-P : Singural-Plural WF : Word Form WC : Word Choice WO : Word Order InS : Incomplete Sentense V : Verb Tense Add. : Addition Ɵ : Omission Sp : Spelling Punct : Punctuation Capt. : Capitaization Art. : Article MNC : Meaning not Clear RoS :Run-on Sentence T : Total of Error

1. Data Analysis

After presenting the error into types of error which are written by Azar and explaining the frequency of error on each item in the previous pages, the writer would like to talk more about the errors that get high frequency in the students‟ writing descriptive paragraph and of course their causes. a. Word Choice The most errors that students made in writing descriptive paragraph is word choice. Word choice or diction is choosing the right word in a sentence. Sometimes one word has the same meaning but has different usage in the sentence. Students had some difficulties in using appropriate words in their sentences because not all words can be used in every sentence. For instance of this error is: Student 14: “I school at MTsN SA Balaraja.” The correct one is “I study at MTsN SA Balaraja.” This error happens because of overgenerealization intralingual transfer. They overgeneralized the meaning of word “school” and used it in wrong place. Students also still confuse to choose the right word in a sentence because of the lack of knowledge or poor vocabularies and its use. Another problem faced by students in term is some students did not know how to translate some appropriate words from Indonesian language to English. The total of students‟ errors in word choice is 123, and then the grand total of errors occured is 588. The data can be percentage by the formula as follow: P = × 100  P = × 100 = 20.9

b. Omission

Second rate type of error is omission. Omission errors are characterized by absence of an item that must appear in a well-formed utterence. Omission can occur morphology. Learner often omit the third person singular morpheme –s, the progressive –ing, the plural marker –s and the past tense inflection –ed or they forgot to put the subject or predicate in a sentence. The example of this error is: