AN ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN USING SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE IN
DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING BY STUDENTS OF SMA
INTRODUCTION
In
learning English, guidelines of School based
Curriculum (KTSP) which is applied for all school levels in
Indonesia lead the students to have real life skills. This implies
that teaching English stated in KTSP in
particular is to enable students to master
the four language skills, they are
listening, speaking, reading, and writing. All of
these skills are expected to be mastered
by the students. Reading and listening are passive skills, it means
that the students only receive the material. Whereas speaking and writing are
active skills, the students will produce something in their learning.
In writing, the
students still have hesitancy about grammar. Since, grammar is the basic
elements of an area of knowledge or
skill, or it is a set of prescriptive
notions about correct use of a language. According to Murcia (1995:4) grammar
is essentially about the systems and patterns we use to select and combine
words. By studying grammar we come to recognize the structure and regularity
which is the foundation of language and we gain
the tools to talk about the language
system. Grammar must be learned by the
students who want to learn about language.
It will be more effective to produce
utterance based on the basic structure
which they know (Nichols, 1993: 78). Moreover
in writing skill, the grammar is>?????????????
