FREQUENT ERRORS IN STUDENTS’ WORK: AN ERROR ANALYSIS udOF THE WRITING OF GRADE XI STUDENTS OF SMA N 1 udPURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2009/2010

摘要

The purpose of this study is to describe frequent errors made by students udof Grade XI in SMA N 1 Purworejo. This study is intended to answer the question udof what are the frequent errors made by the students in their written texts. ud This study was categorized into a case study since it limited the udparticipants to the students of Grade XI, particularly XI IPA 2 and XI IPA 3, in udSMA N I Purworejo. There were 65 students as the research subjects. The data udsources of the research were written texts made by the students. The data were udstudents’ errors, which were analyzed through classification, frequency counting, udand description. ud The findings of the study show that there were 1340 errors made by the udstudents in their written texts. These errors can be classified into 11 types of uderrors. These are associated with the use of verbs (35.75%), punctuations ud(23.73%), articles (14.85%), prepositions (5.82%), plural/singular nouns (5.37%), udspellings (5.08%), pronouns (4.00%), parts of speech choices (1.79%), word udorders (0.75%), word choices (0.37%), and miscellany (2.54%). ud ud ud