Grace Wisara Sirait , 2201414036 (2019) THE USE OF FINITE IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BY SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS (A Case Study of the Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 1 Ungaran Academic Year 2018/2019). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

Finite is one of elements of grammatical patterns which should be found in forming a complete sentence that will be meaningful and understandable. This final project aims to explain how the students of VIII-A in SMPN 1 Ungaran use finite in writing descriptive text, what errors that students make on the use of finite, and the solution of students’ problems in using finite. This study used a qualitative research design with a method of description in presenting data. The data were collected from the students’ descriptive written test. In writing their descriptive texts, the students of VIII-A in SMPN 1 Ungaran still used finite incorrectly. Sometimes, they added some meaningless words and omitted some meaningful parts such as finite and subject. The errors that the students made were classified into four categories based on finite error category by Dulay, Burt, and Krashen theory. There are one hundred and twelve errors found in their descriptive texts, and the identification is as follows: misinformation with 75 errors (66.96%), then followed by addition with 17 errors (15.17%), omission with 13 errors (11.60%), and misordering with 7 errors (6.25%). The most frequent errors that the students made in writing descriptive text are dominated by misinformation category. The solutions of the students’ problems in using finite from the teacher’s side are to enhance their knowledge about tenses by emphasizing the application of formulas from all tenses and giving more exercises and increase their awereness of the importance or function of finite, subject, and other parts which are contained in a sentence. While from the students’ side is to enrich their vocabularies by doing more practices, so that they do not lack of words in paraphrasing while describing something.

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