AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ERROR USING PERSONAL PRONOUNS IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT AT EIGHT GRADE OF SMP CERDAS MURNI TEMBUNG

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to analyse the eight grade students’ error using personal pronouns in writing narrative text at SMP Cerdas Murni Tembung. This study was a qualitative research. The subject of this research was the eight grade students’ of SMP Cerdas Murni Tembung while the object of this research was students’ error using personal pronoun in writing narrative text. The researcher used purposive sampling technique to take the sample; there were 15 students as sample from 60 students. To collect the data, the researcher used test. The test was conducted to know what types of errors were made by students when they use personal pronoun in writing narrative text. Based on data analysis, the researcher found that types of errors that students made in using personal pronoun in writing narrative text. The total amounts of errors made by students’ were 101 errors. The percentage of students’ errors omission in using personal pronoun in narrative text was 29.16%, addition 16.67%, misordering 4.16%, and misformation 50%. And the most errors using personal pronoun in narrative text made by the students misformation was 50%.