ERROR ANALYSIS ON THE USE OF NOUN PHRASES IN DESCRIPTIVE WRITING AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENT OF MAN 2 PALEMBANG

SONIA WIDIARTI, NIM. 12 25 0132 (2017) ERROR ANALYSIS ON THE USE OF NOUN PHRASES IN DESCRIPTIVE WRITING AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENT OF MAN 2 PALEMBANG. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN FATAH PALEMBANG.

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Abstract

The objectives of the study are 1) to find out the various kind of errors of noun phrase in descriptive writing of the eleventh grade students of MAN 2 Palembang, 2) to discoverthe dominant errors of noun phrases in descriptive writing of the eleventh grade students of MAN 2 Palembang. Thirty two students were asking to write descriptive text in English based on the theme provided in sixty minutes. This study was a descriptive qualitative research design which was describing the reality behind phenomenon deeply and descriptively. This study analyzed the students‘ noun phrases errors in descriptive writing based on Surface Strategy Taxonomy by Dulay, Burt and Krashen (1982). Meanwhile, the frequencies of errors were calculated in percentage. This study revealed 1) the participants contributed the four types of error in term of noun phraseserrorin their descriptive writing, those were (1)omission (24.66%), (2)addition (20.55%), (3)misformation (52.06%), and (4)misordering (2.73), 2) the most frequent type of subject noun phrases errors contributed by the eleventh grade students of MAN 2 Palembang on their descriptive writing was misformation with the occurrence 38 errors and the percentage 52.06%. Key words: Noun Phrases, surface strategy taxonomy, descriptive writing

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