Puteri, Maria Vanesa (2024) An Analysis of Students’ Errors on Using Simple Past Tense in Writing Narrative Text at The Ninth Grade Students of SMP Alfalakhusa’adah. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze students' errors in using simple past tense in narrative text of grade ninth in SMP Alfalakhusaadah. Errors in using simple past tense are often a problem in writing narrative texts. The subject of this study consists of 15 students of the ninth graders junior high school.

This research uses descriptive qualitative methods, including observation, questioning, data collection, and analyzing data. To analyze the data using the categories of omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. This research
use 2 data sources, namely primary data originating from research documentation, and secondary data from books and journals.

The results of this study show that there are 38 errors made by students. The types of error most made by students is misformation which consists of 27 errors or 71%, followed by omission which consists of 7 errors or 18.4%. Then,
the error in addition which consists of 3 errors or 7.8%.and finally is misordering which consists of 2 errors or 2.6%. The most common errors by students is misformation. The causes of errors by students are due to factors such as lack of unserstanding of meaning, influence of mother tongue, word choice, and language profiency.

Keywords: student errors, simple past tense, narrative texts

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