An analysis on the students errors in placing punctuation in narrative text at Grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Panyabungan

Hasibuan, Safriyaldi Rahadi (2022) An analysis on the students errors in placing punctuation in narrative text at Grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Panyabungan. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research is focused on students’ errors in placing punctuation in narrative text at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Panyabungan. One of the problems which were still faced by the students in English was about students’ lack in usage of punctuation in narrative text. The students still felt difficult to used punctuation because most of them did not understand well about punctuation, lack of vocabulary, and lack of attention about the importance of punctuation. There are 3 formulations of the problems and corresponding with the purposes of this research. It is to find out the kinds of errors, the most common errors and then the factors that cause the students often made errors in placing punctuation on the narrative text at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Panyabungan. The research method in this research is qualitative descriptive. Subject of this research is grade VIII-1 of SMP Negeri 5 Panyabungan which consist 10 students as a sample. The researcher gave a test, and the test has 20 punctuations. The researcher analyzed the data by checking errors, identifying errors, read and determining errors, giving percentage, and giving interpretation. The research findings showed that the most common errors which most students made are quotation mark 31.01%, full stop 30.23%, comma 17.83%, question mark 6.98%, and semi colon 13.95%. Quotation mark and full stop have the biggest errors on the students’ writing. Based on the classification of students’ errors, the most common errors made by students were misinformation and omission with the percentage of misinformation 55.81% and omission 44.19%. It caused of three factors, namely careless, first language interference, and translation.

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