AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF PAST TENSE PATTERN FOUND IN WRITING SPOOF TEXT DONE BY THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SCIENCE PROGRAM OF SMA N 1 MIRIT IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

English is an International language, so it is important to learn English because we will know the development of science, technology, education and culture in other countries. To communicate the language, the students need some language skills. One of them is writing. So the researcher analyzes the kinds of errors made by the students and describes the cause of errors made by the students in making past tense of writing spoof text. The objectives of the study are: 1) to analyze kind of errors made by the students in making past tense of writing spoof text at the eleventh grade students of science program of SMA N 1 Mirit in the academic year 2012/2013. 2) to describe the cause of error done by the students in making past tense of writing spoof text at the eleventh grade students of science program of SMA N 1 Mirit in the academic year 2012/2013. The instrument used is writing test on English simple past tense of spoof text. The subject of the study is the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 Mirit in second semester 2012/ 2013. The researcher chooses randomly XI IPA 2 as the subject of the study. It consists of 31 students. Students errors identified in this study were chatagories into four types, namely, omission, addition, misformation, and misordering errors. The result of the analysis showed that there were 205 errors among 31 students. The types of errors consist of 25 (22.44%) errors of omission, 37 (18.05%) errors of addition, 98 (47.80%) errors of misformation and 22 (11.71%) errors of misordering. The cause of errors identified into four types, those are 27 (13.17%) errors caused by overgeneralization, 40 (19.51%) errors caused by of rules restriction, 39 (19.03%) errors caused by incomplete application rules, and 99 (48.29%) errors caused by false concept hypothesis. In order to avoid student errors, the researcher suggests the teacher to give more practice and use some methods in teaching learning process in order to attract the student attention.