APPROVAL
A GRAMMATICAL ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENTS’ WRITING
OF TELLING UNFORGETABLE MOMENT OF THE ELEVENTH YEAR
STUDENTS OF SMK MUHAMMADIYAH 1 JATINOM IN 2009.
ARISAH
0711201837
This report has been approved by the lecturer of Error Analysis Lesson of
Teacher Training and Education Faculty Widya Dharma University Klaten.
Klaten, Januari 2010
The Lecturer of Error Analysis Lesson
Drs. Purwo Haryono, M. Hum
Consultant
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First of all, the writer would like to say thank for God, who gives grace and
bless for finishing this paper. The writer realizes that this research would be
impossibly finished without other people’s help. The writer would like to express her
special appreciation to:
1. Drs. Purwo Haryono, M. Hum, the lecturer of Error Analysis, who have patiently
given their guidance, suggestion, correction, and motivation from the beginning
of writing this research to the writer.
2. The writer’s beloved parents, who give help in form of spirit, love, material and
moral.
3. Drs. Haryadi the headmaster of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Jatinom who has given
permission to do exam.
4. The eleventh year students of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Jatinom who have been
ready to do some task seriously. So, the writer finds out the data for them.
5. The writers’ friends especially for miss. Yuni, and my friends in class VC who
give much help to finish this research. Thank you for everything.
The writer is really aware that this paper is still far from perfect. Finally the
writer hopes that paper can be useful for the readers.
Klaten, Januari 2010
The Writer
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TABLE OF CONTENT
TITLE PAGE ..................................................................................................
APPROVAL PAGE ........................................................................................
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ..............................................................................
TABLE OF CONTENT ..................................................................................
ABSTRACT ....................................................................................................
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
A. The Background of the Study ..............................................
B. The Reason for Choosing the Topic ....................................
C. The Statement of the Problem .............................................
D. The Limitation of the Study ................................................
E. The Aim of the Study ..........................................................
F. The Use of the Study ...........................................................
G. The Clarification of the Key Terms ....................................
H. The Organization of the Study ............................................
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
A. Contrastive Analysis ...........................................................
1. The Meaning of Contrastive Analysis ..........................
2. The Hypothesis of Contrastive Analysis .....................
B. Error Analysis .....................................................................
1. The Meaning of Error Analysis ...................................
2. The Sources of Error ...................................................
3. The Types/Kinds of Error ...........................................
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4. The Practical Uses of Error Analysis ..........................
5. The Methodology of Error Analysis ...........................
C. A Brief Look at Descriptive Writing ...................................
CHAPTER III THE METHOD OF THE STUDY
A. The Meaning of Research Method ......................................
B. The Strategy of the Research ..............................................
C. The Data and the Sources of Data .......................................
D. The Technique of Collecting the Data ................................
E. The Technique of Analyzing the Data ................................
CHAPTER IV THE RESULT OF THE STUDY
A. The Analysis of the Data ......................................................
B. The Discussion of the Findings ............................................
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION, IMPLICATION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion ............................................................................
B. Implication ..........................................................................
C. Suggestion ...........................................................................
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX
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ABSTRACT
ARISAH, NIM: 0711201837. English Education Study Program, the Faculty of
Teacher Training and Education. Widya Dharma University 2009. A Grammatical
Error Analysis of the Students’ Writing of Telling Unforgettable Moment of the
Eleventh Year Students of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Jatinom in 2009.
This research aims at giving a description of the errors done by the eleventh
year students of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Jatinom in 2009. The writer reveals the
errors and their factors contributing to the errors as the answer of problem of this
study namely of the students’ “What kinds of grammatical errors writing are done by
the eleventh year students of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Jatinom in 2009?”
The writer uses the students’ work in recount paragraph as the source of
data. The data are collected then analyzed with recount methods.
After analyzing all of the data taken from the eleventh year students of SMK
Muhammadiyah 1 Jatinom in 2009, the writer can find some sentence having
grammatical errors closely related with make recount writing into English language.
The kinds of errors are omission error, addition error, misformation error,
misordering error, omission-addition error, omission- misformation error, omission-
misordering error, addition- misformation error, addition- misordering error,
misformation- misordering error, omission- addition- misformation error, omission-
misformation- misordering error, omission- addition- misformation- misordering
error.errors of addition, errors omission, errors misformation, errors of misordering,
errors of addition and misformation addition and omission.
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