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
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.