GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN WRITTEN NARRATIVE PARAGRAPH OF THE SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM OF UNIVERSITY OF PGRI SEMARANG IN ACADEMC YEAR 2019/2020

Abstract

This study aimed to 1) find out the grammatical errors in written narrative paragraph, 2) know the dominant grammatical errors found in written narrative paragraph, 3) describe the causes of the errors found in written narrative paragraph, 4) know the contributions of this study. In this research used qualitative research, purposive sampling technique in collecting and analyzing the data, and also used the descriptive analysis technique (percentage). For collecting data, the writer used 48 written narrative paragraphs. The result of the second semester student writing were analyzed based on surface strategy taxonomy, classify the error and percentage. Based on the result of the research, it was found that the total of students error were 407 items from 48 texts of narrative paragraph. There were 322 items (79.11%) errors of misformation, 40 items (9.82%) errors of omission, 35 items (8.59%) errors of addition, 10 items (2.45%) errors of misordering. There were also found 2 types that caused of the students’ errors. They were interlingual transfer and intralingual transfer. This result of the analysis hopefully gave some contribution in attempting to decrease errors done by the students and help them to improve writing skill and increase the knowledge of English especially in grammar.