Abstract:
This study is about analyzing students’ errors occur in writing descriptive texts.
The classification of errors is based in Keshavarz. This aim of this study is to find
out types of errors, and dominant errors of writing grammar in descriptive text
made by the Eighth Grad Students’ Mts Ma’arif Kepil in the academic Year of
2015/2016. This study uses descriptive qualitative as its research design because
the researcher would like to describe what errors made by students in writing
descriptive text. The researcher uses test student make paragraph descriptive to
collect the data. The result of the research shows that there are four types of errors
occurred in this research. The most common errors is missformation (89 errors or
45%). The second place goes to omission (59 errors or 30%). Addition is on third
with 42 errors (21%). The last one is misordering (9 errors or 5%). The researcher
hopes that this thesis will be useful for the students, the teachers and the other
researchers.
