STUDENTS' GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS AT SMK MUHAMMADIYAH KARANGANYAR PEKALONGAN

Abstract

Writing is one of the four language skills which need to be mastered by students. However, writing in English is not simple since the students have to be able to write correct sentences in English. Generally speaking, even after learning English for several years, students still make grammatical errors in writing. This makes the writers interested in conducting a quantitative study in the form of error-analysis to analyze students’ grammatical errors in writing English texts. More specifically, this error-analysis-study aims to analyze the types of grammatical errors commonly made by students at SMK Muhammadiyah Karanganyar Pekalongan in writing descriptive texts along with the causes of those errors. To get the data, the writers collected the descriptive texts written by the first grade students at SMK Muhammadiyah Karanganyar and analyzed them. The findings show that the students at SMK Muhammadiyah Karanganyar made various grammatical errors like omission, addition, misinformation and misordering. With the occurrence of these errors the writers offer suggestions for minimizing these errors.