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THE STUDY OF ERRORS COMMITTED BY THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 10 DENPASAR IN ENGLISH WRITING

TITLE

1.      Title                 : THE STUDY OF ERRORS COMMITTED BY THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 10 DENPASAR IN ENGLISH WRITING

2.      Authors           : Ni Nyoman Ayu Sastraparamita, Dewa Komang Tatra, Nyoman Adi Putra.

3.      University       : Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha

4.      Email               : (j.sastraparamita , komang.tatra , jaya.putra)@pasca.undiksha.ac.id

ABSTRACT

1.      Concept           : This study was focused on analyzing the types, the sources and the management of errors committed by the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 10 Denpasar in writing descriptive and narrative paragraphs.

2.      Object             : The eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 10 Denpasar.

3.      Method           : Assigning students to write descriptive and narrative paragraphs.

4.      The Findings   :

-        The first research finding shows seven errors namely title of the paragraphs, the topic sentence, the development of paragraphs, the coherence, the diction, the grammar, and the mechanics.

-        The second finding shows the four sources of errors namely absence of knowledge about writing indicators, less practice in writing descriptive and narrative paragraphs, forgetting about grammatical rules, spelling and the usage of the words.

-        The third finding shows that the types and sources of errors remained the same, however the number of students committed and reasoning such errors are reduced.

5.      Keyword         : Process Approach, Sources and Types of Errors, Writing

6.      Words             : 253 Words

INTRODUCTIONS

1.      Fact                 : The students of SMP Negeri 10 Denpasar also had problems to develop sentences and in mechanics. Some students commonly had difficulty to develop sentences for the second paragraph. They only can write one or two developing sentences out of four developing sentences. The students also made errors in using mechanics. There were no commas or full stops on the right place in some students’ written text. Because of this, the students who were actually able to develop four sentences seems like to write one sentence. The wrong position of the commas also made the students committed errors in mechanics. The errors were found in capitalization too. There are some words written in small letters which actually should be written in capital letters.

2.      Theory             : 

-        (Depdiknas, 2003:18) Writing is a productive skill. Based on the curriculum content, writing is considered as an important language skill in learning English. It emphasizes on the competition both standard and basic competencies achieved in teaching and learning process. The competency standard that has to be acquired by the students is the ability to communicate in oral and written forms based on social context by using the target language fluently and accurately in an interactional discourse and a monolog which involves discourse in terms of descriptive, narrative, procedure, report, news items, anecdote, exposition, explanation, discussion, commentary and review with varied interpersonal, ideational and textual meaning.

-        (Diliberto, 2013) There are 5 steps in using process approach: 1) Pre-writing, 2) Drafting, 3) Revising, 4) Editing and 5) Publishing.

3.      The research    :

-        To identify the types of error committed by eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 10 in writing descriptive and narrative texts in English.

-        To analyses the sources of error committed by eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 10 in writing descriptive and narrative texts in English.

-        To over possible solution to manage the errors committed by eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 10 in writing descriptive and narrative texts in English.

The subject of the study was two classes of the eighth grade students in the academic year 2013/2014. They had been selected as the subject of the study because based on the result of the observation and the result of an interview conducted to the English teachers there. The teachers declared that both two classes as the weakness classes in English writing. There were 93 students chosen as the subjects of the study.

METHOD

1.      Subject                        : The analysis to the types of error that committed by the students was based on relevant theories.

2.      Location          : SMPN 10 Denpasar

3.      Technique        : There were three stages in this step of research. They were preparation, implementation and finalization of the research. The three stages were as follows.

-        The Research Preparation

The researcher designed the lesson plans and writing tasks for class VIIIC and VIIIE. The students should write descriptive and narrative texts in English. After that, the researcher asked permission to the headmaster of SMP Negeri 10 Denpasar and setting up the schedule of the research. The research ran in May 2014. The researcher used regular schedule in replacing the real English teacher in both classes. There were five meetings for each descriptive and narrative texts. Each meeting had 80 minutes for time allotment.

-        The Research Implementation

The researcher introduced the process approach in the first 3 meetings since it is not familiar for the students. The teacher used process approach in teaching students writing descriptive and narrative texts in English. The fourth meeting was used to apply the process approach, to make sure that the students were able to follow the five steps in the process approach.

-        The Research Finalization

The writing tasks were given in the last meeting. The students should write descriptive and narrative texts in English. It is said as the finalization phase. The result of this writing tasks was then analyzed.

CONCLUTIONS

This study focuses on the analysis of types, sources and management errors made by eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 10 Denpasar. This study was designed to be qualitative descriptive through observation.

The first research finding shows seven errors namely title of the paragraphs, the topic sentence, the development of paragraphs, the coherence, the diction, the grammar, and the mechanics.

The second finding shows the four sources of errors namely absence of knowledge about writing indicators, less practice in writing descriptive and narrative paragraphs, forgetting about grammatical rules, spelling and the usage of the words. Some errors are unclassifiable based on previous criteria.

The third finding shows that the types and sources of errors remained the same, however the number of students committed and reasoning such errors are reduced.

SUGGESTIONS

English teachers of the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 10 Denpasar in the academic year 2013/2014 should think to use the process approach in teaching the students, especially in writing subject. Teachers also need to make sure their students comprehend the subject, the indicators of writing, and any texts that are taught to avoid the occurrence of errors on students' writing. Teachers need to give feedback in every single error of students, especially in writing. By giving feedback for students, students can realize their errors, and it will reduce the errors in next writing.