AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENTS’ NARRATIVE WRITING FOR THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ OF SMK N 45 JAKARTA IN THE 2013/2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

titis widiarto; burhayani, m. pd.; nurhandayani, m. pd.;

DIAN TRI HANDAYANI. NIM: 1001065050. An Error Analysis of Students’ Narrative Writing of The Eleventh Grade Vocational High School at The First Semester of SMK N 45 Jakarta. A paper, Jakarta: The Study Program of English Education, the Department of Language and Art Education, the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka. September 2014.
The objective of this research is to find out the most typical errors made by the students in writing and the causes of the error. The writer uses a descriptive method. In collecting the data the writer administers a narrative writing test to the students. Then, the writer analyzes the writing errors done by the students. This research was conducted at SMK N 45 Jakarta on the eleventh grade students which consists 29 students.
From the calculation, the writer concludes that the grammar aspect which is difficult for the students are verb tense with 94 (21%), add a word with 60 (13%), capitalization with 50 (11%), word form with 44 (9%), meaning not clear with 37 (8%), word choice with 32 (7%), omit a word with 28 (6%), incomplete sentence with 28 (6%), punctuation with 27 (6%), spelling with 20 (4%), run on sentence with 10 (2%), word order with 7 (1%), singular-plural with 5 (1%), and article with 1 (0%).
Furthermore, the writer summarizes of the causes of error. The height is intarlingual transfer with 247 (55%), context of learning with 82 (18%), communication strategy with 75 (16%), and interlingual transfer with 39 (8%). It indicates that most of students need more treatment and remedial teaching from the teacher toward their errors in English writhing and the eleventh grade students of SMK N 45 Jakarta still need more practice in order to develop their writings.