ERROR ANALYSIS IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT WRITTEN BY GRADE EIGHT STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

This study aims at analyzing the errors usage on students’ narrative writing. It was conducted by using qualitative descriptive. The subject of this research was grade eighth (VIII) students of SMP Negeri 35 Medan. The number of subjects was taken from one class. It is VIII-7 which consist of 36 students. The instrument for collecting data was writing narrative text. The result of the study showed that there are so many errors found on students’ narrative writing. The analysis showed that the most common type of errors made by the students is omission (41,8%). From the data analysis was found that the main causes of errors is Intralingual transfer (56%)