Istikomah, Nurul (2020) An error analysis of redundancy in Student’s Writing Descriptive Text at the fourth semester of English Education Department of IAIN Metro. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The objectiveof this reseach is to know thetypes, the reason and the solution of errors redundancy in writing descriptive text made by students. The research was conducted to the fourth semester of English Education Department of IAIN Metro. This reseach is qualitative reseach. The primary data of this reseach were taken from five teen student’stask at the fourth semester of English Education Department of IAIN Metro. The data were collected by documentation and interview.

Based on the result of the data, the researcher found some types of error redundancy in student’s writing descriptive text. The types of errors were found are 27items (49%) of redundant word pairs, 17items (30%)of redundant categories, and 12 items (21%) of redundant modifiers. Based on these problem the students have limitatation of vocabularyand gramatical mastery,so that they repeat the words that have already been said and they are still confused to applying the correct tenses in their text, it means that the students have to increase their knowledge by reading some books, join the course to master the grammar and sentence structure, and they can avoid redundancy by increase their vocabulary.

Keywords:Descriptive text, redundancy

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