| dc.description.abstract | This research investigated the errors in using personal pronouns in writing descriptive texts made by seventh-grade students at SMP Islam Soerjo Alam, Malang, Indonesia. The study is qualitative, aiming to explore and understand the meanings individuals or groups attribute to a social human problem, as outlined by Creswell (2018).
The subjects of this research were 21 seventh-grade students chosen using random sampling. To analyze the data, firstly, the researcher asked the teacher to collect her students' writing descriptive text as the data and then identified the errors by analyzing them, after that the researcher classified the errors by using Surface Strategy Taxonomy by Dulay, Burt, and Krashen (1982), after that the researcher calculated the data taken, and the last made the percentage in each category.
The result showed that there were 35 items of errors found in student’s writing. The most dominant errors found in object pronouns with a percentage was 37,1% (13 errors) and errors in subject pronouns found in students’ writing was 34.2% (12 errors). After that, possessive adjective errors found was 25.7% (9 errors), and the last there was an error in reflexive with a percentage was 2,8% (1 error). So, it can be concluded that the most errors in personal pronouns for seventh-grade students of SMP Islam Soerjo Alam, Malang come from object pronouns.
By taking this study hopefully, it can drive further researchers to explore and analyze the personal pronoun error aspects that are not taken by the writer in this study. The research recommends further investigation of pronoun acquisition across various educational settings (high school, higher education, non-educational) and a deeper analysis of student pronoun errors.
Keywords: Error Analysis, Personal Pronouns, Descriptive Text | en_US |
