AN ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT MADE BY TENTH GRADERS OF SMAN 2 TARAKAN
This study was conducted to identify the types of errors in the students’ descriptive text. This is a descriptive qualitative study conducted in MIA 4 at SMAN 2 Tarakan in the 2020/2021 academic year. The subjects were 28 students. This research was conducted online on Friday 18 September 2020. The technique of data collection was a written test. It focused on classifying errors, based on the Surface Strategy Taxonomy. Based on the analysis, there were 153 errors, among of which are addition (18 errors or 12%), omission(33 or 21%), formation errors (101 or 66%), and placement errors (1 or 1%). The most common error is spelling errors, classified into misformation errors with 67 total error out of153 total errors. In conclusion, the researcher found 153 errors that occurred in a descriptive text made by the tenth grade students of MIA 4 from SMAN 2 Tarakan.