ENGLISH TEACHER'S STRATEGY TO MINIMISE STUDENTS' ERRORS IN WRITING PROCEDURE TEXT FOR TEN GRADE STUDENTS AT SMAN 01 BAE KUDUS

This study aimed at finding out errors students made when writing
procedure texts and strategies the teachers employed to overcome the errors . This
study used a qualitative method. This study was conducted at SMAN 01 Bae
Kudus. Researchers employed observations, interview to teachers, and
documentation to gather data. The study revealed that students made errors when
writing procedure texts; those are interlanguage, intralingual, spelling, grammar,
and punctuation. To minimise the errors,, the teacher used the "jembatan keledai"
method and the Duolingo program. The success rate for using this strategy to
minimize student errors is 50% for the Duolingo program and 70% for ―jembatan
keledai‖.
Key words : Teacher's strategy, students' errors, procedures text