An Error Analysis on the Students’ Narrative Writing of the Eleventh Grade of SMA N 95 Jakarta in the 2014/2015 Academic Year

m. nurrasyidin, se., m.si. ; herwin kurniawan, se., mm; drs. sigit sumarsono, m.pd.; siswana, m.pd.;

NENENG. NIM: 1101065173. An Error Analysis on the Students’ Narrative Writing of
the Eleventh Grade of SMA N 95 Jakarta in the 2014/2015 Academic Year. A paper, The
Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education,
the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka,2015.
The objective of this research is to find out the common typical and source of
errors which are made by the eleventh grade students of SMA N 95 Jakarta on the
narrative writing. The writer also would like to offer some ideas on how to cope with
such errors and suggest the appropriate remedial teaching.
The writer employed a descriptive analytic method. The samples were taken in a
science class (XI IPA 3) of the eleventh grade which consists of 25 students. The writer
used a writing task as the instrument of the research for the students to make a kind of
narrative composition in a form of guided fable story.
After identifying, classifying, analyzing and describing the data, the writer found
out that the common typical and source of error on the narrative writing of the eleventh
grade students of SMA N 95 Jakarta 2014/2015 academic year are Verb Tense and
Intralingual transfer. The result showed that Verb Tense was the common typical error with 370 errors or 40.49%, and the common source of error was Intralingual Transfer with 442 errors or 44.60%. The writer suggests a story board teaching as a remedial teaching to reduce verb tense errors, and deductive – inductive teaching approach to reduce intralingual transfer error.