CHAPTER IV

RESEARCH FINDING

4.1 Result of Research

4.1.1 The Analysis of the Data

In preceding explanation, the data are taken from students’ writing. The

writer classified the student’s grammatical errors in narrative writing. The writer

only focused on four areas, based on surface strategy taxonomy: omission,

addition, misinformation, and misordering.

4.1.2 Error Based on Surface Strategy Taxonomy

1) Errors of Omission

In this care omission error happened when the students forget some

element of good sentence. In this research, the writer analyzed errors of

omission found in students’ writing. Based on the data, there are examples

of omission errors;

No Error Recognition Students Initial Reconstruction

1 Once upon a time there life NR Once upon a time there
lived
2 Every single minute they pray DL Every single minute
to God they prayed to God
3 They dress her beautifully MK They dressed her
beautifully
4 Her parent and all of her friends NH Her parents and all of
her friends
5 Snow Maiden play with her NF Snow Maiden played
friends with her friends
6 Her friends ask her to jump on HR Her friends asked her to
the fire jump on the fire
7 Her mother try to entertain SF Her mother tried to
entertain

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2). Errors of Addition

Dulay et al.(1982), as quoted by James (1998 p:50) state that the students

not only error in omission, but also the students usually made error in addition.

The addition is adding something that not important for the sentence. There are

five error in this category, so the writer show all the error in the following table.

Table 3 Addition Errors

No Error Recognition Students Initial Reconstruction

1 They made a girls from YL They made a girl from

……. …….
2 …….., your daughters” RM …….., your daughter”

3 their dreamsed never MK their dreams never came

came true true
4 make a new Snow PR make a new Snow Maiden
Maidens again again
5 She refused it becauses SA She refused it because one
one thing thing

3). Errors of Misinformation

Misinformation is also kind of grammatical error made by the students in

writing narrative text. It is related to Dulay et al,(1982) opinion cited in James

(1998,p:50) state misinformation happens if incorrect place wrong order of items.

In this type, the writer found misinformation error in students’ writing.

There are some examples of misinformation errors based on student’s writing.

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Table 4 Misinformation Errors

No Error Recognition Students Initial Reconstruction

1 but so far they did not had a baby yet NR but so far they did not
have a baby yet
2 but it never come true DL But it never came true
3 One day, they go to a snow mountain RM One day, they went to
a snow mountain
4 …. and lefted the snow girl alone MK …. and left the snow
girl alone
5 But her friends kepted on forcing her MS But her friends kept
to jump on. on forcing her to jump
on.
6 Finally, she can not do anything. HR Finally, she could not
do anything.
7 And then she do it SF And then she did it
8 Snow Maiden just look at their play AF Snow Maiden just
looked at their play
9 It’s because Snow Maiden was make PR It’s because Snow
of snow Maiden was made of
snow
10 ….. as result she melt NF ….. as result she
melted

3). Errors of Misordering

Misordering is also kind of grammatical error made by the second year

students in writing narrative text. It is related Dulay et al.(1982) cite in James

(1998,p:50) state that misordering happens if the word or phrase id incorrect

place.

Table 5 Misordering Errors

No Error Recognition Students Initial Reconstruction

1 The morning following NR The following morning
2 They fire played RM They played fire
3 Them poor! SF Poor them!
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Counting of the Errors

The following step was counting the errors. Based on the classification, it

was counted the total number of errors was 25 errors. And those consisted of

omission errors were 7 items, addition errors were 5 items, misinformation errors

were 10 items, and misordering errors were 6 items.

Table 6 The Summary of All the Type Errors must analyzed by the Students

Type of Errors Number of Errors

Omission 7
Addition 5
Misinformation 10
Misordering 3
Total 25

From the table above, it could found that the highest error was errors of

misinformation

The following step was analyzing the data. To analyze the data, the researcher

found the errors in the test by using this pattern:

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1. Omission : 25 x 100% = 28 %