Students’ error in writing narrative text at 6 th semester (TBI-1) of English Department period 2019-2020 (via online) IAIN Padangsidimpuan

General problems that faced by students in writing narrative text is the students are confused how to write narrative text based on generic structure well. So, the students still made errors in writing narrative text such as in using of tenses and verb. Two reasons why the students made errors in writing narrative text are because less in grammar mastery and confuse to differenciate of the verb. The aims of this research are to find out the error, find out the kinds of error, and to find out the dominant errors made by the students in writing narrative text. This research conduct through qualitative research which uses descriptive method. Sources of data from this research is the students at 6 th semester of English department period 2019-2020 IAIN Padangsidimpuan from TBI-1 with the total of 37 students. The instruments are essay writing test and interview for finding the students’ made dominant error. There are some techniques to collect the data, they are: read the students’ writing firstly, identification of error, classification of error, tabulating of erorr, describing of error, the last is taking conclusion about the error. Based on the result of the research, found that students made error in surface strategy taxonomy category. The item erros that usually faced by students were on using conjunction, article, singular/plural, to be, verb tense, adverb and adjective, demonstrative adjective, pronoun, and preposition. The kinds of error made by students were in category omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. The number of omission error was 63. The number of addition error was 62. The number of misformation erorr was 56. The last is the number of misordering error was 23. Total all of the errors were 204. The biggest total percentage was in omission which in using article. Researcher concluded that the dominant errors made by students in writing narrative text was in omission category with the percentage 30,9 %