An Error Analysis on Students’ Narrative Writing of the Twelfth Grade Students of the 85 Senior High School Jakarta in the 2016/2017 Academic Year

mokh. suef; drs. h. susilo wardoyo, m.pd; dra. roslaini, m.hum;

EMBUN NURLITA HAPSARI. An Error Analysis on Students’ Narrative Writing of the Twelfth Grade Students of the 85 Senior High School Jakarta in the 2016/2017 Academic Year. The paper: Jakarta. The Study Programme of English Education, Teacher Training and Pedagogical Faculty, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, Jakarta 2017.
The research was aimed to know the types and the sources of error which were made by the students in narrative writing. The research was started on April 3rd 2017 and finished on April 17th 2017 population of the study is the twelfth grade students of SMA Negeri 85 Jakarta the 2016/2017 year. It consist of 40 students, but sample taken is 30 students. The objective of the study is to find out the empirical evidence to support the answer of the problem as stated previously. The writer also would like to offer some ideas on how to cope with such errors. So, the writer hopes it can give information for teacher to do a proper remedial teaching for improving the students‟ writing skill, while for students they are expected not to make the same errors.
The method which is descriptive analytical method. The writer administers a guided test on narrative writing. Morover, to differentiate errors and mistakes, the writer ask the students do the same task on different day. So, the students wrote 4 paragraph based on the directions that were asked by the writer. The writer would to find out the types of error and sources of error by the students.
The study shows that the most typical errors done by the students is in capitalization with 32.80 %, next errors in punctuation with 14.50 %, errors in omit a word with 11.62 %, errors in verb tense with 11.50 %, errors in word choice with 7.57 %, errors in add a word with 7.20 %, errors in word order with 5.75 %, errors in meaning not clear with 2.90 %, errors in spelling with 2.80 %, errors in singular-plural with 2.76%. The smallest typical errors done by the students is word form with 2.42 %, incomplete sentence with 1.60 %, run-on sentence with 1.60%, and article with 1.20%. Besides, based on the source error, the highest error in interlingual transfer 53,58% and the lowest is in intralingual transfer 46,42%. The writer hope that this research is useful for the personnel to helping them mastering narrative text.