Analysis Of Students’ Grammatical Errors in Writing Narrative Text

The aim of this research is to identify the types of common errors made by the third semester students of English Education Department in writing narrative text. The research employed qualitative approach to gain the data of students’ grammatical errors in writing narrative text through coding. The subjects of this research were 20 assignment papers of third semester students’ writing narrative text. The students’ narrative texts were analyzed by referring to Betty S. Azar classification. The findings showed the total number of errors is 459 errors. The three most common types of grammatical errors in the students’ narrative texts were verb tense which was shown through 171 errors or 37%, followed by capitalization which appeared in 97 errors or 21%, and punctuation which appeared in 94 errors or 20%. In conclusion, the most common error in students’ writing narrative text is verb tense