AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ LINGUISTIC PROBLEM IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT MTS MUHAMMADIYAH PALLEKO

Abstract

The study aims to find out the Improvement of the Students’ linguistic problem in writing descriptive text at MTs Muhammadiyah Palleko. The problem statement of the studyWhat is the linguistic problem of students’ writing in descriptive text at theat the second year students of MTs MuhammadiyahPalleko.The research was descriptive research which used a case method. The subject of this research was the students of the eight grade of MTs Muhammadiyah Palleko consisted of 20 students. In analizing the data, the writer collected the data from the students, identified the grammatical errors, classified the the error in students’ writing descriptive text to find out the frequency of errors, culculated the data taken, and made the precentage in each category.The result shows the students errors in four kinds of errors there were 27.9% errors of omission, 13.1% errors of addition, 24.6% erorr of ordering, 34.4% errors of malformation. The writer found 61 total of errors. The writer concluded that ommosion and malformation was dominant kind error made by the eight grade students at MTs Muhammadiyah Palleko. The teacher are suggested to give much practice abaut grammatical rules in descriptive test in order to minimize the errors. Moreover, for other reseacher, they provide some techniques to increase students’ mistery in writing descriptive text