Megareta, Dian (2013) An Error Analysis on The Students' Descriptive Paragraph in English Writing at State Islamic College of Jurai Siwo Metro. Undergraduate thesis, STAIN Jurai Siwo Metro.

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Abstract

The primary goal of this research was to figure out common errors which are generally done on the students' descriptive paragraph in State Islamic College of Jurai Siwo Metro. Writing is one of an important aspects in language learning. But, writing descriptive paragraph was not easy to be learnt as a foreign language because foreign language has different elements from our native language. Accordingly, it needs to be investigated what are common errors on the students' descriptive paragraph in the third semester at STAIN.

This research was qualitative research. A case study was used to approach the data were obtained in this research. The writer took 20 students' descriptive paragraph as purposive sample. These writings were then analyzed. The data were collected by observation and documentation. The data will be analyzed by using Miles and Huberman model.

The finding result of this research was found out the common errors on the students' descriptive paragraph. The errors were classified into three groups. The students' did errors commonly in using verb, errors in concord, errors in the use of learner language. It illustrated on the frequency oferrors in using verb was 60 %, in concord was 40%, and learner language was 35%. After that, the writer displayed all the result ofher findings. Verb has the bigest number ofthe students' writing errors. In conclusion, there were some common errors on the students' descriptive paragraph writing in the third semester at STAIN Jurai Siwo Metro.

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