Abstract:
This research uses qualitative research. The aims of this research is to find
out the types of students’ error in students’ descriptive text made by the tenth
grade students of SMKN 1 Puring in the academic year of 2016/2017.
The researcher uses purposive sampling to gain the data of the research
because the researcher takes the sample of one class to be observed. It consists of
25 students. In collecting the data, the researcher asks the students to do the test
in writing descriptive text. In analyzing the data, the reseacher identifies the
students’ errors and then classifies the students’ errors. The classification of errors
is based on Keshavarz.
Based on the analysis of the data, the result shows there are four types of
errors. They are omission, addition, substitution, and permutation.the total of
errors are 188. There are 74 omisssions (39.36%), 44 additions (23.40%), 61
substitutions (32.45%), and 9 permutations (4.79%).
