Abstract:
This objetives of this research is to describe the types of error and the most
dominant error in writing narrative text made by students at the eleventh grade
students of SMA Muhammadiyah Purworejo. The sample are 25 students from
eleventh grade students in XI IPA 1 of SMA Muhammadiyah Purworejo.
The data collects by using writing test. The researcher analyzes the data
using descriptive qualitative techniques and the researcher analyzes the simple
past tense based on the types of error using Keshavarz‟s theory. The researcher
collects the data, identify, and then classify.
The result shows that the errors made by the students can be categorized
into four types of errors. Those are errors of omission, errors of addition, errors of
substitution, and errors of permutation. There are 188 omissions (37.5%), 35
additions (7%), 266 substitutions (53%), and 13 permutations (2.6%). The result
shows that the most dominant error on using simple past tense in writing narrative
text made by the students is errors of substitutions, which is 188 error (53%).
