AN ERROR ANALISYS OF STUDENTS’ IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT AT GRADE X IN SMA SWASTA DAERAH AIR JOMAN IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021

This research was about error analysis in writing narrative text of students at Grade X of SMA Swasta Daerah Air Joman in Academic Year 2020/2021. The objectives of the research to find out the types of errors that students faced in writing narrative text at Grade X of SMA Swasta Taman Daerah Air Joman. The subject of the research is students at Grade X Mia of SMA Swasta Daerah Air Joman in Academic Year 2020/2021 . The research methodology was narrative qualitative. The technique of collecting the data isonline test, because of pandemi covid 19. So the researcher joint to group whatshapp students at Grade X of Mia and ask students to write a narrative text. In this research, the researcher classified and analyzed the students‟ errors in their sentences based on the Dulay et.al Theory namely Surface Strategy Taxonomy, they are omission, addition, misinformation, and misordering. The result of this research showed that there were 381 items researcher found that the students did in writing narrative text. The proportions (frequency and percentage) of the students‟ error in writing narrative text are are omission error with 196 items or 51,44%, addition error with 16 items or 4,19%, misinformation with 144 items or 37,79% and misordering error with 25 items or 6,56%. Therefore, the result of the research showed that omission errors are the highest error that made by the students.Keywords: Error Analysis, Writing, narrative tex