An Analysis Of The Grammatical Errors In Writing Narrative Text Of The Second Year At SMPS YPPI Tualang

ABSTRACT Muhammad Eka Nanda, 2021.An Analysis of the Grammatical Errors In Writing Narrative Text of the Second Year at SMPS YPPI TUALANG. Writing The objective of the research is to know the types of grammatical errors in the students writing narrative text made by the second-year students of SMPS YPPI Tualang. In this research, the researcher used Dulay, Burt and Karshen’s theory of errors to analyze students’ errors in writing narrative text. The researcher want to know what types of errors made by the students in writing narrative text made by the second-year students of SMPS YPPI Tualang The method use in this research was a descriptive qualitatif design. The population of this research in the second year students of SMPS YPPI Tualang, which divided into six classes and it consist of 30 students each classes. In this researcher, the researcher used random sampling to obtain the sample. The sample of this research is 8.6 class in academic year of 2021/2022 of SMPS YPPI Tualang which consist of 18 students. The data of this research which was collected from the writing task. The steps of the data analysis were: collecting the data from the students’ works. Identifying students’ errors, classifying errors and calculating the percentage of students’ errors. The result of the research showed that there are some errors made by the students. The first type of error that students made is Misordering with the total of error 5 errors. This error happened because the students confused about noun phrase.The second type of error that students made is Addition with the total error 71 erros. This error happened because the students confused about past tense. The third type of error that students made is Omission with the total error 118 errors. This error happened because the students didn’t know about phrasal verbs. And the most common eror that students made in narrative text writing is Misformation with the total of error 556 errors. This error happened because the students didn’t know about irregular verb and regular verb