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n Indonesia, English is considered as a foreign language because it is learnt
after the first language is acquired. That is
why, in the process of learning E
nglish,
the
students
usually
face
many
problem.
Students
usually
make
a
number
of
errors.
The
errors
arise
because
of
the
different
system
between
students’
native
language and
the
foreign
language t
hey
learn.
I
t
is
realized
that
each lan
guage
has
its
own
system
that
is
different
from
one
another,
so
it
is
possible
for
the
students
to make errors and find difficulties in learning a foreign language
, or English.
This
research
deals
with
syntactical
error
analysis.
It describes
the
syntactical
errors
on
descriptive
paragraph
writing
made
by
the
seventh
grade
students
of
SMPN
4
Genteng
in
the
2011/2012
academic
ye
ar.
The
objective
of
this
research
was
to
describe
the
syntactical
errors
are
made
by
the
seventh
grade
students
at
SMP
4
Genteng
in
the
2011/2012
academic
year
and
to
describes
the
most
syntactical
error
are
made
by
the
seventh
grade
students
at
SMP
4
Genteng
in
the
2011/2012
academic year.
I
use
the
descriptive
study
of
which
the
data
were
obtained
from
the
students’ descriptive
paragraph writing. Then,
these writings were
anal
y
zed
by the
researcher
based
on
the
syntactical
errors.
The
syntactical
errors
were
classified
into 4
groups. They were errors in the use of simple present
tense, errors in the use
of prepositions, errors in the use of articles, errors in the use of word order.
Proportional
random
sampling
was
used
in
this
research
and
the
total
number
of
the
research
respondents
was
42
students
of
the
seventh
grade
at
SMPN
4
Genteng
in
the
2011/2012
academic
year.
This
sample
represented
the
research
population,
which
were
219
seventh
grade
students
at
SMPN
4
Genteng.
The data resources were also t
he English teacher of the seventh
grade
students and
the
documentation
that
consisted
of
the
list
of
the
names
of
the
seventh
gradestudents
and
the
school
facilities
in
SMP
4
Genteng.
The
supporting
data
were
collected by interview,
documentation, and
the main
data was collected b
y writing
tests.
From
the
results
of
data
analysis,
it
could
be
concluded
that
the
students
made
94
syntactical
errors
which
were
classified
into
36
errors
in
producing
simple
present
tense,
12
errors
in
the
use
of
prepositions
,
29
errors
in
the
use
of
articles, 17
errors in t
he use of word
order. The result
s on t
he analysis showed that
the
highest
number
of
syntactical
errors
occurred
in
the
descriptive
paragraph
writing
in
the
research
was
the
simple
present
tense
errors
with
38.29%
in
medium
classification
level,
The
other
types
was
the
misuse
of
articles
with
30.85%
in
the
medium
classification
level.
The
following
errors
were
the
misuse
of
word
order
with
18.08%
in
the
ver
y
low
classification
level,
the
misuse
of
prepositions
with the 12.76% in the very low classification level.
From
the
results
of
the
data
analysis,
it
could
be
seen
that
the
syntactical
error
t
ype
predominating
the
other
types
was
the
misuse
of
simple
present
tense
errors
with
38.29%
in
the
medium
classification
level,
Dealing
with
the
results
of
interview
with the English teacher of the seventh
year students of SMP 4 Genteng,
it
was
known
that
the
misuse
of
simple
present
tense
was
the
main
problem
faced
by the students in writing a descriptive paragraph.
The finding in this research was
supported by the fact stated by the teacher
in the interview. | en_US |
