Error Analysis of Countable and Uncountable Nouns in Writing Descriptive Text at the First Grade of SMK IT Insan Kreatif Tanjung Morawa.

Abstract

The research aims to find out the errors in using countable and uncountable nouns in writing descriptive text. The objectives of this study are (1) Identifying the types of errors students make in using countable and uncountable nouns in writing descriptive text. (2) The dominant errors students make in using countable and uncountable nouns in writing descriptive texts. This research used descriptive qualitative method. The subjects of this research were students of class X of SMK IT Insan Kreatif Tanjung Morawa. The researcher took class X-A which totalled 28 students. The data was taken by writing students' descriptive text using countable and uncountable nouns on a piece of paper. The researcher found that the results of this study were that students made four types of errors, namely omissions, summation, drafting errors, and drafting errors. From 41 error data, the percentage of each error is omission (41,46%), addition (21,95%), misformation (12,19%), misordering (24,39%). And the dominant type of error found in students writing descriptive text using countable and uncountable nouns is errors in omission (41,46%). The results encourage suggested for the students in English Department and also for English teachers Understanding whether these errors stem from a lack of understanding, insufficient practice, or other factors. The errors implied that they did not master the form of countable and uncountable noun yet because they did not know the main rules in using countable and uncountable nouns and also they face difficultness in distinguish which are the countable noun and uncountable noun.