| dc.description.abstract | Indonesian students learn English as a foreign language. In this case, English is
rarely used in communication outside the classroom. As a result, the students often
make some errors in their English writing. Therefore, the students need good writing
ability to make the readers understand his ideas. The readers can only understand the
message in writing if the writer can arrange, explain, and tell his ideas briefly and
orderly with good organization, diction, and structure. In addition, grammar becomes
one of the English components that is closely related to writing skill. The writer
should express his ideas in correct and appropriate sentences so the reader
understands what he means. However, it is difficult to make good sentences. The
students often make grammatical errors, especially morphological errors, because
English grammar has different systematic rules from Indonesian grammar.
This research was a descriptive quantitative research. The purpose of the
research were to describe the types of morphological errors in descriptive paragraph
writing made by the students, the percentage of each type of morphological errors in
descriptive paragraph writing made by the students, and the most morphological error
in descriptive paragraph writing made by the students. Then, the results would be
explained qualitatively. Moreover, the research sample was taken through
proportional random sampling by lottery as many as 15% from the population. Thus,
the number of the samples taken was 35 students.
Data collection method was applied in this research by three ways. They were
writing test, interview, and documentation. In addition, there were some steps of error
analysis: 1) collecting errors data, 2) identifying errors data, 3) classifying and
explaining errors data, and 4) evaluating errors data.
The results of the data showed that there are four types of morphological
errors in descriptive paragraph writing made by the seventh year students of SMPN 1
Kalibaru in the 2010/2011 academic year. They are plural inflection errors as many as
66 errors (56.41 %), the third person singular verb inflection errors as many as 26
errors (22.22 %), possesive inflection errors as many as 7 errors (5.98 %), and present
participle inflection errors as many as 18 errors (15.38). And, the most morphological
error in descriptive paragraph writing made by the students was the plural inflection
errors as many as 56.41 % of whole errors.
It could be said that the students still made some morphological errors in the
descriptive paragraph writing. This errors might happen since the teacher did not use
other media except the book in teaching English to the students. The teacher used the
rooms available in that school, but he did not completely used the media. Besides, he
should also give remedial teaching to the students that have not mastered the
materials yet, especially the materials that deal with descriptive writing and
morphological aspect. For that reason, the remedial teaching can minimize the
students’ morphological errors in their descriptive writing. | en_US |
