@article{eprints16545,
           title = {Analysis of Sentence Structure Errors
in Students? Descriptive Paragraph Writing
at Mts Muhammadiyah 1 Sekampung Udik East Lampung},
          author = {Arik Suryawan 0613042018},
         journal = {Digital Library},
             url = {http://digilib.unila.ac.id/16545/},
        abstract = {The objectives of this research are : (1) to investigate whether or not there are
sentence structure errors in students? descriptive paragraph writing, (2) to identify
the sentence structure errors in writing descriptive paragraph, and (3) to find out
the number of proportion (frequency and percentage) of the errors.
In doing the research, the researcher used descriptive method. The researcher
analyzed and described students? errors based on surface strategy taxonomy and
communicative effect taxonomy. The subjects of this research were third grade
students of MTs Muhammadiyah 1 Sekampung Udik. The instrument for
collecting the data was writing task with clear direction. The focus of the research
is on sentence structure errors. In analyzing the data, the researcher used several
steps as follows : (1) recognizing the errors, (2) interpreting the errors, (3)
reconstructing the errors, (4) classifying the errors and (5) computing the errors
based on surface strategy taxonomy and communicative effect taxonomy.
The result of the analysis of sentence fragment, the comma splice, the run-on or
fused sentence, and the dangling modifier in students? descriptive paragraph
writing shows that not all of them were used correctly in their paragraph. The
highest frequency of errors is local error (55.04 \%), followed by omission errors
(51.17 \%), global errors (44.96 \%), misformation errors (18.60 \%), misordering
error (17.05\%), and addition error (13.18\%).
Based on the results above, it can be suggested that the teacher use the result of
this study as a guidance to evaluate the weakness or progress of students? ability
in learning English, particularly in terms of writing a descriptive paragraph. In
other hand, the students should pay more attention to the sentence structure rules
since it becomes the important aspect in language learning, especially in
composing good paragraph.}
}