AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ERROR IN TRANSFORMING ACTIVE SENTENCES INTO PASSIVE VOICES AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 13 CIREBON (QUALITATIVE RESEARCH)

CICI INDANASARI: AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ERROR IN TRANSFORMING ACTIVE SENTENCES INTO PASSIVE VOICES AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 13 CIREBON. As part of English grammar active sentence and passive voice are a form of sentence which have many kinds of pattern. therefore, it can make opportunity for student‟s error to applicate the patterns of active sentence into passive voice correctly. The aims of in this research are to know the ability of students in transforming active into passive voice correctly and to find the error on passive voice made by the students. The teory in this research is the teory by Corder, errors fall into four main categories, omission, addition, misformation and misordering, misordering error is a form of error that often arise or dominant in used active sentences into passive voices This research is qualitative by analyzing student‟s error though the data have been collected from the test. The techniques for collecting data used by the researcher are observation get the data of the objective codition of the school in general, interview and test. The testing instrument used anates program for window to know the validity, reliability, discriminatory power and difficulty index. After the data have been collected, interview with ask some question to the teacher, and the result from the test with formula statistic. The result of this research are the sentences of simple present tense percentage of the highest error is shown in misordering error is 70% and the lowest percentage misformation is 47.5% whereas for passive sentences of past tense, the highest percentage of errors shown in misordering error is 67.5% and the lowest form of error misformation is 42.5% and for the passive form of simple future tense the highest percentage shown of errors in the form of misordering 67.5% and the lowest error is in misformation error and omission error. Based on the result that processing the data and analysis data have been done, and the conclusion that misordering errors as a dominant error which appear in making passive voice and the students still got difficulties to change the active into passive. The researcher suggested to the next researcher or the teacher to more creative to teach students