| dc.description.abstract | The problem of this research were (1) what type of syntactical errors made by
the second year students of MAN 2 Jember in the 2004/2005 academic year in
writing a descriptive paragraph, (2) what is the percentage of each type of
syntactical errors made by the second year student of MAN 2 Jember in the
2004/2005 academic year in writing a descriptive paragraph. The objectives of this
research were to describe the types and to describe the percentage of each type of
the syntactical errors made by the second year students of MAN 2 Jember in the
2004/2005 academic year in their descriptive writing. The samples of this research
were 42 students which were taken by proportional random sampling by lottery (15
% of the population from 6 classes). The method of collecting the main data was
Descriptive writing test, and the methods used for collecting the supporting data
were interview, and documentation. The collected main data were analyzed by
applying descriptive quantitative method. By analyzing the students’ data and
consulting the results of the data analysis, it was found that the percentage and the
category of the students’ errors of each component were as follows (1) the
percentage of articles errors (a, an, the) was medium (22, 67%); (2) the percentage
of preposition errors was medium (23, 26%); (3) the percentage of word order was
high (37, 5%); (4) the percentage of subject verb-agreement was low (16, 57%).
Based on the results, it is suggested that the English teacher to improve the
students’ Syntactical mastery and their writing skill. | en_US |
