ERROR ANALYSIS OF DERIVATIONAL AFFIXES ON ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS IN WRITING NARRATIVE AND ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TEXT

Abstract

This research deals with the derivational affixes errors in writing narrative and
analytical exposition text by eleventh grade students. This research uses a
qualitative design in which the data are taken from the sentences of texts. Dulay’s
theory is applied to analyze students’ error in writing and divided each error into
types. The researcher applies random technique to get a representative sample.
The source of data in this study is Eleventh Grade (XI) students of SMA Swasta
Ma’had Muhammad Saman, 30 students are choosen as the sample. The data of
this study is taken from the students’ writing narrative and analytical exposition
text. The analysis found that there are four classification of errors occured in
students’ writing; they are omision 10 cases, addition 4 cases, misformation 11
cases and misorder 13 cases. Besides, the class changing is the most derivational
errors that contributes 33 cases (86.8%) then followed by class maintaining
derivational that contributes 5 cases (13,2%). In this study also found that the
causes of errors are intralingual and interlingual transfer. It is hoped that the result
of this research is useful for everyone who wants to study or make a similar
resaerch about affixation errors.