ABSTRACT

Rifki, Muhammad. 2018. A Study on the Students’ Errors in Using Simple Present Tense at the Eighth-Grade of SMPN 13Banjarmasin Academic Year 2017/2018. Sarjana’s Thesis. English Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Lambung Mangkurat University, Banjarmasin. The first advisor: Asmi Rusmanayanti, S.Pd, M.Sc., the second advisor: Dr. Noor Eka Chandra, M.Pd.

Keywords: error analysis, intralingual error, writing

This research aims to analyze the kind of errors conducted by eighth-grade students of SMPN 13 Banjarmasin when writing simple sentences in simple present tense form. This research is a descriptive study. The sample of this research was 23 students from 8-B. The data were gathered by using tests that were conducted twice with three weeks interval to check the errors made by the students. The result of the first test shows that the total errors conducted by the students were 193 errors. The students made 138 errors (71.5%) in verb agreement. Followed by verb be with 58 errors (28.5%) as the lowest number of errors. While in the second test, from 212 errors the students made 138 errors (65%) in verb agreement and 74 (35%) in verb be. Thus, from the results, we can conclude that errors in verb agreement are the most errors occurred with the highest percentage in both tests. It was recommended that the students should practice grammatical rules in the simple present tense in order to minimize the errors.