AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF PAST TENSE PATTERN FOUND IN WRITING SPOOF TEXT DONE BY THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SCIENCE PROGRAM OF SMA N 1 MIRIT IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

The objectives of the study are to analyze kind of errors and to describe the cause of error done by the students in making past tense of writing spoof text at the eleventh grade students of science program of SMA N 1 Mirit in the academic year 2012/2013. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative research.  The instrument used is writing test on English simple past tense of spoof text. The subject of the study is the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 Mirit in second semester 2012/ 2013, that are XI IPA 2 students. It consists of 31 students. The result of the analysis showed that there were 205 errors among 31 students. The types of errors consist of 25 (22.44%) errors of omission, 37 (18.05%) errors of addition, 98 (47.80%) errors of misformation and 22 (11.71%) errors of misordering. The cause of errors identified into four types, those are 27 (13.17%) errors caused by overgeneralization, 40 (19.51%) errors caused by of rules restriction, 39 (19.03%) errors caused by incomplete application rules, and 99 (48.29%) errors caused by false concept hypothesis.

Keywords: Error Analysis, Past Tense Pattern, Writing, Spoof Text