This research aims at analyze the error made by Indonesian junior high
school EFL learners in writing descriptive text. This research uses a qualitative
method. The researcher uses writing task and interview as research instruments.
The results of the analysis show that there are 72 errors made by the learners and
there are four types of errors, they are omission, addition, misformation, and
misordering. The first is omission with 25 errors made by the learners and with
percentage is 34, 72%. The second is addition with 7 errors made by the learners
and with percentage is 9, 72%. The third is misformation with 37 errors made by
the learners and with percentage is 51, 38%. And the last is misordering with 3
errors made by the learners and with percentage is 4, 16%. So, the frequency of
the type error is misformation with 37 errors made by the learners and with
percentage is 51, 38%. There are three causes of error made by the learners, they
are interlingual, intralingual, and carelessness. The frequency of the causes of
error is Interlingual with 35 errors, and another cause is intralingual with 17
errors, and the last is carelessness with 20 errors made by the Indonesian EFL
learners in writing descriptive text. The contribution of this research are: (1) the
learners know their errors in writing English, (2) the learners know the causes of
their errors, and (3) the learners can more carefully when they do assignment.
A. Conclusion
Based on the findings and discussion in the previous chapter, the
researcher concluded that there are some types and causes of error made by
Indonesian junior high school EFL learners in writing descriptive text of
place. The finding based on the Indonesian EFL learners‟ works showed that
there are 48 errors found in Indonesian EFL learners‟ writing descriptive text,
and the highest error is come from misformation area. It can be seen in table
4.3 that the percentage of student who made errors is 54,16 % with
misformation as the highest type of errors.
After analyzing each kind of errors, the researcher found the causes
of errors. They are interlingual, intralingual, and carelessness factors. There
are 21 learners affected by interlingual factor, 8 learners affected by
intralingual factor and 19 learners affected by carelessness. Interlingual error
happens when students use the rules of their native language in the target
language. In this case, students are confused to different the grammatical
pattern of Indonesian and English language. Intralingual error usually happens
after the language learner has passed the early stage of language learning. It
occurs because they are incorrectly when they write a sentence. And
carelessness error occurs because the students or Indonesian junior high
school EFL learners made their writing task or when they have assignment,
they always do theirs is so hurry. So it makes them made many errors. Such as
they do not read again their task or assignment to surely that theirs task have
done and do not have error or problems again.
Based on the interview, learners said that the descriptive text
challenging because it is difficult when translating from Bahasa to English. It
related to their result. Many learners made error in writing descriptive text.
They don‟t really understand about writing in descriptive text, and they were
not confident to write what they want to write.
B. Suggestion
This research would like to give some suggestions to the learners
and teacher.
1. For the learners
Indonesian junior high school EFL learners have to distinguish
between the grammatical rules of their mother tongue and the grammatical
rules that apply in the target language. Students also have to get used to the
use of English in writing descriptive text.
2. For the teacher
After figure out the reason why learners doing the error in writing
descriptive text, the teacher should repeat the material to the learners
because even the learners have been taught, they don‟t really remember
about it. So, teacher should tell the learners about structure in writing
descriptive text and make sure all of learners understand about that.
3. For further researcher
Although there are still limitations in this research, the researcher
hopes that this research can help as a source of reference for them in
conducting future research, especially in research on analysis of descriptive
text. Also, the researcher suggests that future researchers conduct research
about the things that have not been covered in this research.

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