THE ANALYSIS OF MORPHOLOGICAL ERRORS MADE BY THE VIII GRADE STUDENTS IN WRITING A DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH AT SMPN 4 JEMBER IN THE 2013/2014

Abstract

This research was a descriptive quantitative research on the analysis of morphological errors made by the VIII grade students in writing a descriptive paragraph at SMPN 4 Jember in the 2013/2014. The sample of this research was taken 15% from six classes of VIII grade students by proportional random sampling by using lottery. Thus, the number of the samples was 30 students. There were three ways of data collection methods applied in this research. They were, writing test, interview, and documentation. Furthermore, there were some steps applied in analyzing the errors in this research: (1) collecting error data, (2) identifying error data, (3) tabulating the error data, (4) classifying and explaining the error data, and (5) counting the error data. Based on the result of the analysis data, the VIII grade students of SMPN 4 Jember in the 2013/2014 academic year made morphological errors in the category of morphological inflection errors, namely: (1) possessive inflection errors as many as 22 errors (20.00%), (2) plural inflection errors as many as 18 errors (16.36%), (3) the third person singular verb inflection errors as many as 44 errors (40.00%), (4) present participle inflection errors as many as 16 errors (14.54%), (5) comparative inflection errors as many as 1 error (0.90%), (6) superlative inflection errors as many as 1 error (0.90%), and (7) derivational morpheme errors as many as 8 errors (7.27%). The most morphological errors made by the students in their paragraph writing was the third person singular verb inflection errors as many as 44 errors or 40.00%. Thus, it could be said that the VIII grade students of SMPN 4 Jember still made some morphological errors in their descriptive paragraph writing.