Morphological and Syntactical Error Analysis on The Students’ Descriptive Composition of Private Vocational High School

Abstract

The aim of this research is to find out morphological and syntactical errors made by the students in their composition, the frequency of errors, the dominant type of error, the sources of error, and also to find a remedial teaching. The method of the research is descriptive method. This research is conducted at the second semester of 2016/2017 in SMK Kharismawita 2 Jakarta with the sample of 30 students of XI APh class. The writer uses purposive sampling in choosing the sample and the method of this research is qualitative research. In this research, the errors are classified into 9 categories of morphological errors. The categories, number, percentage of morphological errors made by the students are adverbs, adjectives, indefinite demonstratives, adjectives, nouns, plurals, possesive adjectives, past formations, singulars and to infinitives. Meanwhile, the syntactical errors made by the students are categorized based on the surface strategy taxonomy. The categories, the numbers and the percentage are omission, addition, misformation, and misordering.