ANALYSIS OF MORPHOLOGICAL ERRORS IN EXPLANATORY TEXTS FOR STUDENTS OF SMPN 1 TEBING TINGGI

This study aims to describe morphological errors in the writing of explanatory texts for students of SMP Negeri 1 Tebing Tinggi. The source of the data in this study was an explanatory text essay for class VIII students. The total number of texts is 42 texts. The method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive method. Errors in the level of language morphology in the explanatory text of class VIII SMPN 1 Tebing Tinggi were identified as many as 25 cases, namely 15 or 60% of affixation errors, 7 or 28% of reduplication errors, and 3 or 12% of compositional errors. Overall, the data shows that the errors in the language morphology level of the eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Tebing Tinggi of all the words produced by the students are 0.306% consisting of 0.183% affixation, 0.085% reduplication, and 0.036% composition. So it can be concluded that the student's morphological error assessment is included in the very good category with a value of 99.694%. The results showed that the language skills of the students of SMPN 1 Tebing Tinggi at the morphological level were very good.