Author (Penulis)

Fendik Wahyoe Saputro
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

12.1.01.08.0167

Abstract

Passive voice is one of the most important linguistic components in report text. In this case, learning passive voice cannot be separated from errors. It can be an indicator of the learners’ stages in their target language development even the teaching learning process is better when errors exist because the teacher and the students will know the lack of mastery and make an appropriate remedial teaching to the students. This study aims at investigating the errors that focusing on the following points: (1) To describe the errors of using passive voice in report text made by students of SMAN 1 NGANJUK in the school year of 2016/2017. (2) To describe the causes of errors in writing report text made by students of SMAN 1 NGANJUK in the school year of 2016/2017. Error analysis was used to reveal the above statement. Descriptive qualitative was also implemented in order to obtain and process the data. The subjects of this research were the eleventh grade students who were randomly selected from SMAN 1 Nganjuk, one of the best schools in Nganjuk. The data was gathered using test in report text writing and categorized by Linguistic Category Taxonomy and Surface Category Taxonomy. The study found that there were only 4 out of 5 errors categories made. There are errors in subject-object which has the total number of errors of 7 or 24,14%, be 12 or 41,38%, verb 9 or 31,03% and pronoun 1 or 3,45% and no errors made in by phrase category. The errors are mainly caused by carelessness 52,17% and first language interference 42,48%, with the minority of translation causes 4,35%. Based on these findings, the researcher would recommend the teacher to more concern about errors in those categories. It would be better if the teacher implement some kind of methods to minimize the errors made by the students. It would also be recommended that the teacher give more attention to their students so they do their task more carefully, so the errors could be decreased.

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PUBLISHED

2017-02-16

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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