An Error Analysis of Grammatical Features in Report Text by The Eleventh Grade Students of Accounting Major at Smk N 1 Jorlang Hataran

Abstract

This study is purposed to describe the errors in grammatical features of report text. Inaddition, this study is also aimed to describe the possible causes of those errors. This study appliedthe descriptive qualitative approach in which the data was obtained from the report texts that werewritten by the eleventh grade students of accounting major in SMK N 1 Jorlang Hataran. The datawere collected by using students’ report texts and questionnaires. The data then were analyzed byidentifying the errors first, then describing the errors, and the last explaining the errors. The errorsthat occurred in students’ texts are errors in verbs, sentences, prepositions, articles, agreements,pronouns, modifiers, and tenses. The result of the study indicates that the students made 541grammatical errors which were classified into: 37,15% errors in verbs, 18,85% errors in noun,15,15% errors in sentence, 11,27% errors in preposition, 7,76% errors in article, 4,06% errors inpronoun, 3,51% errors in modifier, and 2,21% errors in tenses. The students’ errors were causedby 31,23% ignorance of grammatical rules, 28,09% incomplete application of rules, 15,89% falseconcept hypothesized, 13,86% interference of interlingual transfer, 9,05% wrong communicationstrategy, 1,84% over-generalization