AN ERROR ANALYSIS IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT USING SURFACE STRATEGY TAXONOMY

Ganda Herdiansyah, Deri Herdawan

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Errors are made by the students in writing skill have been treated as the most serious error in English. Therefore, this research aimed to find errors in writing skill which is made by the students at the seventh grade in Junior High School 2 Terusan Nunyai. The errors were classified into surface strategy taxonomy which consisted of omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. The data were taken from descriptive text which is made by 19 students. The writer used descriptive qualitative as the research design. The data were analyzed by identifying the students’ errors, classifying the errors, and calculating the percentage of errors based on the total cumulative errors. The finding showed that the total of error items of students in English writing is 14 items. The highest errors were omission (57,14%), followed by addition (28,57%),
misformation (14,29%), and misordering (0%).

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Descriptive Text, English Writing, Error Analysis, Surface Strategy Taxonomy

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