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2026•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
English writing is a fundamental skill in the Indonesian education system, yet it remains a significant challenge for many learners, particularly regarding grammatical accuracy. Among the various grammatical components, the correct usage of English articles (a, an, and the) is notably difficult for Indonesian EFL learners because their native language lacks a direct equivalent, leading to frequent errors. This study was conducted at MTsN 3 Agam with the primary objective of identifying and classifying the specific types of article errors made by seventh-grade students in their descriptive writing tasks. By pinpointing these linguistic hurdles, the research aims to provide a clearer understanding of the interlanguage development of young learners and the specific areas where they require the most pedagogical support. The research employed a descriptive qualitative design, analyzing 27 writing samples produced by students of class VII.1. The data collection involved a writing task where students described their favorite people, places, or pets. The identified errors were systematically classified using the Surface Strategy Taxonomy proposed by Dulay et al. (1982). The analysis revealed a total of 27 article-related errors. The results showed that omission was the most frequent error type, occurring 13 times (48.1%), followed by misformation with 11 instances (40.7%), and addition with 3 instances (11.2%). Notably, no misordering errors were found. These findings indicate that students predominantly struggle with the obligatory nature of articles, often failing to include them where required or substituting them incorrectly. In conclusion, the study demonstrates that seventh-grade students at MTsN 3 Agam face substantial difficulties in mastering English articles, largely influenced by the absence of a similar system in the Indonesian language. The high prevalence of omission and misformation errors suggests that students have not yet fully internalized the semantic and syntactic constraints of article usage. Based on these results, it is recommended that English educators move beyond implicit exposure and provide more explicit, targeted instruction on articles. Incorporating varied practice sessions, such as worksheets and interactive games like Quizizz or Kahoot, can help reinforce these rules and improve students' overall writing proficiency.
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2022•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
ABSTRACT Indah Kartika Sari (2317113) “An Analysis of Students’ Error in The Use of Articles in Writing Descriptive text at The Eight Grade Students of MTsN 13 Agam in Academic Year 2021/2022”, A Thesis, State Islamic Institute Of Bukittinggi. This research background was motivated by the problems of class VIII students of MTsN 13 Agam. First, some students still confused to use the correct articles when they are writing descriptive text. Second, some students do not understand to use articles correctly, so they are omit using articles when writing descriptive text. Third, some of students added articles to sentences that shouldn’t need to be added. Researcher's questions in this study were what types of errors the students did on the use of articles in writing descriptive text and what were the causes of students’ errors on the use of articles in writing descriptive text. The purpose of this study was to find out what types of errors the students did on the use of articles in writing descriptive text and to know the causes of students errors using articles in writing descriptive text. This research used qualitative research methods with class VIII as the research population. The research sample was 19 students who were selected through simple random sampling technique. Data collection was carried out through tests and interview. In the writing test, students are asked to write descriptive text with choose one topic from four topic. In interview there are 7 question. These questions represent what causes the students errors in the use of articles. The results showed that the most frequent students errors in the use of articles were omission with a percentage of 60%, the second highest error was addition with a percentage of 28% and the lowest error is misformation with a percentage of 12%. The number of percentages above shows that errors of articles still occur on students' writing descriptive text. The causes of students error in the use of articles are devided into interlingual error, intralingual error, induced error, inadequate learning and fossilization. The causes of error the students did from interview it is causes interlingual error, intralingual error, induced error, inadequate learning It showed that most of students did error were caused the differences between English and Indonesia and also the differences of rules from English and Indonesia. Causes of students errors also from their friend because give difference explanation about how to use articles correctly so that they make errors in the use of articles and the last is causes of error in the use of articles were the students didn’t have knowledge about how to use articles correctly.
