AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON THE USE OF PREPOSITION IN NARRATIVE COMPOSITION MADE BY THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMAN 1 BABAT TOMAN MUBA.[SKRIPSI]

The objectives of the study were: 1) to find out the types of errors on the use of preposition in narrative composition made by the eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Babat Toman MUBA, 2) to find out the most frequent type of errors on the use of preposition in narrative composition made by the eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Babat Toman MUBA. Thirty eight students were asking to write narrative composition in English based on the topics provided in forty five minutes. This study was a descriptive qualitative research which was describing the reality behind phenomenon deeply and descriptively. This study analyzed the students’ narrative composition based on classification of preposition error by Jha (1991). Meanwhile, the frequencies of errors were calculated in percentage. This study revealed: 1) the eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Babat Toman MUBA as the participants contributed three types of errors on the use of preposition in their narrative composition, those were (1) omission (23,47%), (2) insertion (26,08%), and (3) selection (50,43%), 2) the most frequent type of errors on the use of preposition contributed by the eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Babat Toman MUBA on their narrative composition was selection with the occurrence 58 errors (50,43%)