Students’ Perception and Error Analysis of Simple Present in Writing Descriptive Text at Private Vocational School
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Keywords: Error Analysis; Descriptive Writing; Simple Present Tense; Types of Errors; Students’ Perception.Abstract
This study investigates the most frequent grammatical errors made by 10th-grade students at SMK Pembangunan Nasional Bekasi when writing descriptive texts and explores their perceptions through a questionnaire. Using a quantitative approach, data were collected through writing tasks and questionnaires. The findings reveal four types of errors: omission (49%), misformation (31%), misordering (11%), and addition (10%). Omission errors were the most dominant, accounting for nearly half of the total 113 errors. Despite reporting no difficulty in writing descriptive texts, students' writing tests showed frequent errors, highlighting a discrepancy between perceived and actual performance.
Keywords: Error Analysis; Descriptive Writing; Simple Present Tense; Types of Errors; Students’ Perception.
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