Silvia Nur Agustiani , 2201414020 (2019) MORPHOSYNTACTIC ERRORS IN THE STUDENTS’ WRITTEN DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This study aims to describe the types of morphosyntactic errors and to determine the most dominant type of errors in the students‟ written descriptive texts written by the fourth semester students of a Genre Based Writing class in the academic year 2017/2018. This study is descriptive quantitative. The object of this study was the students‟ written descriptive texts. The participants were the fourth semester students of a Genre Based Writing class in the academic year 2017/2018 that involved 22 students. There were 20 students out of 22 students who wrote their written descriptive texts since two students did not attend the class and they did not write the descriptive texts. Thus, 20 students‟ written descriptive texts were collected. Then the data were classified by using the theory proposed by Dulay, Burt, and Krashen (1982). It involved omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. The findings of this study showed that there were 98 errors found in the students‟ written descriptive texts which invlolved misformation, omission, addition, and misordering. Misformation involved misformation of verb in subject-verb agreement (30.62%), verb in passive voice (1.02%), verb in past tense (1.02%), verb in past participle (1.02%), verb in future tense (1.02%), noun (4.08%), preposition (2.04%), pronoun (1.02%), to be (1.02%), and determiner (2,04%). Omission involved omission of –s in plural (26.53%), articles (2.04%), to be (13.27%), pronoun (1.02%), and suffix in adverb (1.02%). Furthermore, addition was categorized into addition of conjunction (2.04%), to be (1.02%), articles (3.06%), pronoun (1.02%), and suffix in noun (1.02%). There were also 3 errors (3.06%) in misordering. It can be concluded that the most dominant error belongs to misformation of verb in subject-verb agreement which involves 30 errors (30.62%). It is suggested that the students should learn more about morphology especially in forming plural and learn how to construct words into phrase or clause to be a good text. It is also suggested that the lecturer should give more extra attention to those who still have difficulties in dealing with morphosyntax, and she also should give them the feedback.

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