THE ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN WRITING A NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE NINTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 34 MAKASSAR

Abstract

This study aimed to find out the grammatical errors made by the ninth grade students‟ in writing narrative text at SMPN 34 Makassar. The researcher focuses on grammatical errors in writing narrative composition. This research provided narrative text; means that the researcher describe a topic of narrative text and analyze grammatical errors The researcher used qualitative analysis method in this research. The researcher collected the students‟ writing test that they done in the classroom and analyzed it through classifying their error based on the Azzar classifications. After that, the researcher described the number of errors in the table form as recapitulation of the errors the students have made. The researcher described errors in each sentences and gave reconstruction of whole composition. the data collected from the test. It is analyzed quantitatively including descriptive statistics. The result of data analysis showed that types of error that were made by the students of the third year of SMP Negeri 34 Makassar in their writing narrative text. Total score is 1805 and the mean score is 75 and classified as fair. It showed that the usage of the grammar in writing is difficult for the students. So that, the analysis of the students‟ grammatical errors in writing is very important because the teachers can know the factual condition of the student‟s ability in writing and what kinds of error that the students probably do in their writing for the next time