Error Analysis On Narrative Paragraphs Written By Students Of Al Hikmah Islamic High School Surabaya

Key Words: Error analysis, narrative paragraph.Language is a crucial media in human communication. Aside from the first language acquired since human learned to talk, human learn second languages as well. In learning second languages, the language learners produce errors frequently. The researcher conducts a research on narrative paragraphs written by students of Al Hikmah Islamic High School Surabaya by using Dulay, Burt dan Krashen\u27s theory. This research focuses on two problems: (1) What are errors found in narrative paragraphs written by third year students, (2) What common errors are produced by third year students.This research uses qualitative approach in document analysis to describe the errors produced by the students in writing narrative paragraphs. The data are sentences containing errors, taken from the narrative paragraphs entitled “My Last Vacation” written by the students.The researcher reveals 477 errors which divided into four categories. Error of addition appears with the percentage of 10%, error of omission appears with the percentage of 19%, error of misformation appears with the percentage of 68%and error of misordering appears with the percentage of 3%.The researcher expects this research to be able to contribute in a betterunderstanding regarding error analysis. The researcher also suggests the nextresearcher, especially students of English Department to do a research withdifferent object and theory because this research is yet to cover all aspect of error analysis