The Students’ Errors in Writing Expository Text at the Eleventh Grade of MAS Darul Falah, Langga Payung

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This research aimed to analyze the students’ errors in writing expository
text at the eleventh grade of MAS Darul Falah, Langga Payung, Labuhan Batu
Selatan. In this research, the researcher used a qualitative method. The
participant of this research were eleventh grade students of MAS Darul Falah.
This research were conducted by snowball sampling and the researcher only took
10 students to write expository text based on the topic they choose in sixty
minutes. The data were collected by giving test to the students. The data were
analyzed by using documentary technique of Miles and Huberman. It was
consisted of three steps were data reduction, and data display and conclusion
drawing or verification. The result of the study indicating that there are some
errors that made by students such as 6 errors of auxiliary verb (13%), 3 errors
subject of Ommision (7%), 4 errors of conjuction (9%), 4 errors of article (9%), 3
errors of misformation (7%), 3 errors of misordering (7%), 5 errors of
preposition(11%), 4 errors of singular and plural (9%), 2 errors of possesive
adjective (4%), 6 errors of lexical (13%), 5 errors of capitalization (11%). From
the frequency of each error types, errors of auxiliary verb and lexical errors was
the errors which most frequently produced by the students. The students made
errors because of their first language (Indonesian logical thinking), or we should
say the students mother tongue interference (interlingual source), some students
tried to translate the words one by one from Indonesian language into English
without paying attention to the English structure rules, and intralingual errors
that is caused of errors resulting from complicated system of the target language
itself. Besides that the students still confused to arranging the sentences correctly,
it is because of the lack of knowledge, grammar, pronoun or poor vocabularies
and its use.

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