is verb tense is the most grammatical error made by the students with 149 errors, and the major source of the error is mother tongue interference.
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The second study is about an analysis of students‟ errors in writing narrative text, a study case in second year of SMAN 3 Bekasi. The study focused
on what the commonest error and the source of error made by students in narrative writing. The result of this research is the commonest error is in verb tense with 26,
212 and the lowest percentage is in incomplete sentence with 0, 346. The major source of error that the writer found is intralingual transfer.
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The previous studies above can be a good a good reference for the writer in doing her research. She will compare the result of the research. Beside the most
grammatical error, the writer will also focus on the source its error too.
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Nita Sugiarti, “An Analysis on Students‟ Grammatical Error in Writing Recount Text,” Skripsi of the Degree of Strata I UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Jakarta, 2012, p. 43,
unpublished.
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Dede Rosdiana , “An Analysis of Students‟ Errors In Writing Narrative Text,” Skripsi
of the Degree of Strata I UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Jakarta, 2012, p. 39, unpublished.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Research Design
The form of this study is a qualitative research because the writer takes place in the real situation
about social phenomena. “Qualitative research is an approach to social science research that emphasizes collecting descriptive data in
natural setting, uses inductive thinking, and emphasizes understanding the subjects point of view.”
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Natural means that qualitative research is done in the real setting as a direct source of data. The writer comes and spends the time in the
class, or other learning place about educational concern. In qualitative research, the writer doesn‟t build any hypothesis to be proved or disproved, but accent the
writer‟s idea.
The writer does a case study because the writer chooses the possible places and the pupils as a subject or the resource of the data. “Case study is a detailed
examination of one setting, or a single subject, a single depository of documents, or a particular event”
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. The writer scouts for the place and people who can be the source of the data. When the subject and the place have been chosen, the writer
begins to collect the data, and analyze it based on error analysis procedure. The data analysis of this study is descriptive statistic. It is a statistic that
organizes and analyzes the data, so that can give the description about the phenomenon and the situation which exist at the time of the study. “The data
collected take the form words or picture rather than the numbers. The written results of the research contain quotations from the data to illustrate and
substantiate the presentation.”
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The data is not reduced to numerical symbols.
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Robert, C. Bogdan, and Sari Knopp Biklen, Qualitative Research for Education 5th Edition An Introduction to Theories and Methods, Boston: Pearson Education, Inc., 2006, p. 274.
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Ibid., p. 271.
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Ibid., p.5.
