An Analysis of Students` Narrative Writing Errors at SMAN 1 Tengaran

Abstract

Writing enables students to give a concrete form of their thoughts and opinions whilst enable others to read and understand that thoughts and opinion (Hyland, 2002). Narrative is one of the text types taught in high school. The purpose of teaching narrative is that the students can master this text both in written and spoken form. This descriptive qualitative research study attempts to answer the research question: “What kinds of errors did the students make in narrative writing?” It means the kind of errors the 10th Graders of SMAN 1 Tengaran make in their narrative writing. There were 30 students in the class that were chosen as main source of data collection,the students were asked to write narrative writing about their unforgettable experience but only ten random texts were chosen as the data. The result showed that the majority of errors committed were tenses-related error, with 45 errors (48.91%). It was followed by errors of spelling and punctuation with 28 errors (30.43%), sentences pattern with 12 errors (13.04%), preposition with 4 errors (4.34%) and pronoun with 3 errors (3.26%).