The Error Analysis On Students’ Writing Descriptive Texts Concerning With The Material Of English Maritime Purposes Focusing On Shipping: A case At SMKN 1 Puring, Kebumen In The Academic Year Of 2016/2017

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%).