THE ERROR ANALYSIS OF USING ARTICLES IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE SURVIVAL STUDENTS OF ELA COURSE IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021

ABSTRAK

Safitri, Erma. 2021. “The Eror Analysis Of Using Articles In Writing
Descriptive TextAt The Survival Students Of Ela Course In Academic
Year 2021/2022.Thesis. English Education Department Faculty Of
Education And Training Islamic Institute Darussalam. Advisor.
Mohammad Mahmud, M.Pd.
Keywords: Error Analysis, English Article, Descriptive Writing Text.
English article system is a complex aspect of English grammar. It
is one of themost difficult areas of acquisition for even the most advanced
learners who have perfectly
learnedallotherfeaturesofthelanguage.Theydonothavegoodcomprehension
in articles, especially to distinguish the use of definite and
indefinite.Definite article consists of the and indefinite article consists of a
and an.
The aims ofthis study were to know the types of errors and to know
the dominant type of error onthe use of English article in descriptive text.
The participants of this research were thesurvival class by ELA
CAOURSE. The source of the data
consistsoffortystudents’descriptivewritingtexts.Theerrorscollectedidentifie
dandclassified based on the Surface Structure Taxonomy
(SST)thatspecifies three
typesoferrorsnamelyomission,additionandsubstitution.
Furthermore,thefindingsshowed that there are three types of
English article errors that occurred in student’sdescriptive writing: 1)
omission (50.9%), (2) addition (29.4%) and the last (3)substitution
(19.6%). From the precentage, itindicated that omission was the
mostfrequency error made by the students. It is probably caused by the
first language (L1)inference. These findings can be associated with the
differences in rule Indonesia andEnglish structures. From the finding
above, the writer suggests that the students studymore about articles from
English books to improve their ability in using articles
anddiscusstheirdifficultieswiththe teachertogetclearerexplanation.