An Error Analysis of Preposition on Students’ Writing Descriptive Text at SMA Serirama YLPI Pekanbaru

Putri, Debby Anjayu (2019) An Error Analysis of Preposition on Students’ Writing Descriptive Text at SMA Serirama YLPI Pekanbaru. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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Abstract

This research was conducted based on the phenomena happened in the school. The objective of this research was to find out the errors done by students at the first semester of the tenth grade of SMA Serirama YLPI Pekanbaru in the academic year of 2018/2019. The researcher wants to know what types of preposition errors were done by students the first semester of the tenth grade of SMA Serirama YLPI Pekanbaru based on the surface strategy taxonomy by Dullay’s theory. This research used qualitative method. The population of this research is the tenth grade students of SMA Serirama YLPI Pekanbaru. The researcher used purposive sampling technique to took the sample. The sample taken was one class, Xscience2 which consisted of 25 students. In collecting data, the researcher used students ’task as the research instrument. The researcher took one assignment to know the students’ error in using preposition based on surface strategy taxonomy by Dullay. Thus, it be concluded that there were 51 items error made by students based on surface strategy taxonomy. The students made error in each type of them. They were omission, addition, misformation and misordering. The proportion (frequency and percentage)of each the error types, they were; 10 items error of omission with the percentage 19%.there were 8 items error of addition with the percentage 15%. There were 33 items of misformation with percentage 64% and 1 item error of misordering with the percentage is 2%. In this research, the researcher found that misformation error was the highest. KeyWords : Error Analysis, Descriptive Text, Preposition

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