THE ERROR ANALYSIS OF STUDENT’S WRITING OF DESCRIPTIVE th TEXT ON THE 4 SEMESTER ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM AT STAIN MAJENE

Abstract

This research is about analyzing students' writing errors in descriptive text which focuses on the use of simple present tense. This research is about the error analysis of student‟s writing of descriptive text. This study aims to determine the extent to which the ability to write 4 th semester students English Study Program. In this research is also carried out in STAIN Majene with a sample size of 33 students in the fourth semester. The method of the research is descriptive quantitative method to check what errors student‟s made and how often students were frequent. The steps the researcher took were giving students 3 themes, namely Daily Activity, Family‟s Routine, and Describe People. The result obtained from this study is that there are four types of errors made by students in writing. They are the error of omission 125 (65,78%), error of addition 25 (13,15%), error of misinformation 37 (19,47%), and error of misordering 3 (1,57%). The total number of errors made is 190 error. From the data above, it can be seen that omission errors are the highest number of errors made by students.