AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ SENTENCES IN SIMPLE PAST TENSE OF NARRATIVE TEXT AT SMK MUHAMMADIYAH SEGERAN JUNTINYUAT

الملخص

This research deals with the students’ error analysis in writing narrative text. This
research aims to know the types of errors in writing narrative text based on Dulay’s
Theory. This research used a qualitative research design. There were 31 students
involved from the tenth grade of SMK Muhammadiyah Segeran Juntinyuat. The data
were taken from their writing of the narrative text. The result showed that there are four
types of errors made by students, namely omission, addition, misinformation, and
misordering. In the students writing there were 69 omission errors with a percentage
65%, 17 addition errors with a percentage 16%, 5 misinformation errors with a
percentage 5%, and 14 misordering errors with a percentage 14%. Therefore the most
dominant type of error made by students in the tenth grade of SMK Muhammadiyah
Segeran Juntinyuat is omission errors with percentage 65% with the total number of
errors being 69. It can be concluded that most students were lack of understanding about
using simple past tense in their writing. The students did not understand the use of
tenses, especially the simple past tense in writing.