An Analysis Students’ Errors in Using Past Tense in Writing Narrative Text on Eleventh Grade Students Of SMA Negeri 1 Aek Natas
Abstract
This research is intended to answer these following question, namely: What types of errors are made by the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Aek Natas in using Simple Past Tense in writing narrative. The objective of this study was to know and explain the most frequent errors made by the first grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Aek Natas in writing narrative focused on simple past tense. The classification of errors in this study is divided into four categories; they are omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. The subject of this study consists of 20 students of the first grade of senior high school who have more than 100 words writing. The method used in this study was descriptive analysisto describe students’ errors and analyze the data by using formula: , P=Percentage, F=Frequency of errors made, N=Total of students’ errors. The data was taken from the test; it was written test. The findings showed that there are 152 errors made by the students. The most frequent errors made by the students in their narrative writing focused on the use of simple past tense is misformation which consists of 82 errors or 54%, it is followed by omission with 40 errors or 26%. The next is misordering which consists of 21 errors or 14%. And the last is addition with 9 errors or 6%.
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