AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENTS’ NARRATIVE WRITINGS AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF SMAN 32 JAKARTA IN THE 2013/2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

raden juan fachri setianto; siswana, m. pd.; roihatul millah, m. pd.;

NUR ANISA KHOERANI. An Error Analysis of the Students’ Narrative Writings at the Eleventh Grade of SMAN 32 JAKARTA in the 2013/2014 Academic Year. The paper: Jakarta. The Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teachers’ Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, Jakarta 2014.
The population of the study was the students of XI IPA of SMAN 32 Jakarta in the 2013/2014 Academic Year. It consisted of 70 students, but the sample taken was 30 students. The objective of this study were to find out the students’ types and sources of error made by the students in their narrative writings and to get information for the teacher to do proper remedial teaching for minimizing the students’ errors in writing.
The writer used a descriptive analytical method. In collecting the data, the writer administered a kind of writing task to the students. The scope limitation of the research was on grammatical aspects based on Betty Schrampfer Azar’s error category.
From data calculation, the writer concludes that the most typical errors in the students’ writing errors happened in Add a Word area with 222 errors (25.4%), Word Choice area with 186 errors (21.3%), next, errors in Verb Tense area which had 131 errors (15%), errors in Punctuation area with 75 errors (8.6%), and errors in Omit a Word area which had 66 errors (7.5%). The most source of error was intralingual transfer because of the lack of students’ ability and students’ carelessness in adding a word. It also happened because of the failure of understanding the rules of target language, so the students did not understand how to make a good sentence in their writing.