ABSTRACT

Zahra, Ananda Anisa Amira, 2019. Students’ Grammatical ErrorsinWriting Descriptive Texts of English Department Students ofFKIP Lambung Mangkurat University Batch 2017Academic Year of 2018/2019.Thesis. English Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty Lambung Mangkurat University. Advisors: (1) Dr. Cayandrawati Sutiono, MA (2) Prof. Dr. Fatchul Mu’in, M. Hum.

Keywords: errors, grammatical errors, descriptive texts.

This research was carried out to analyze and to classify the types of errors of student’s grammatical errors in writing descriptive and narrative texts. The errors collected were classified based on Corder’s theory. Besides, the aims of this research were to find out the kind of errors and the most frequent errors found in the descriptive texts and narrative texts written by English Department Students Batch 2017 of FKIP Lambung Mangkurat University of Banjarmasin.

            The methods used in this research were quantitative and descriptive methods. The subjects of this research were English Department students’ batch 2017 of FKIP Lambung Mangkurat University of Banjarmasin in the academic year of 2018/2019.  The researcher took 60 students as the sample. The data were collected through tests. The students were asked to write descriptive texts and narrative texts consisting of 150 words within 80 minutes.

            Based from the result, the researcher concluded that there were four types of errors in descriptive texts and narrative texts written by the students: omission, addition, misformation and misordering. The first highest number of error was omission with 49 errors (81.67%). The second highest number of errors was misordering with 5 errors (8.33%), and then followed by addition with 3 errors (5%) and misformation with 3 errors (5%). Considering of the research, the researcher suggests to the students that they should learn more about grammar of writing text. The students can improve and increase their knowledge by writing practice and read more books that related to grammar.