ERROR ANALYSIS OF USING COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUN IN STUDENTS WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT

Abstract

This research investigated Error Analysis of Using Countable and Uncountable Noun in Students Writing Narrative Text. This research is aimed at, 1) to find out the types of error are made by the students in using countable and uncountable noun in writing narrative text.There are several problems of the students in learning process about countable and uncountable nouns. Countable and Uncountable Nouns are discussed since students in junior high school. However, several students may do not understand with its form. They can apply the right rules in forming countable and uncountable nouns. An Error that students usually made is in arranging uncountable noun as countable noun. For example, they lived in a seas. It should be they lived in a sea.“I need paper to write a letter.” The correct one is “I need some paper to write a letter”. Based on that explanation above, the writer is interested in doing error analysis on the students work on countable and uncountable nouns in writing narrative text. 2) To find out the most dominant type of error is found in using countable and uncountable noun in Writing Narrative Text. The method of this research is qualitative research which uses some techniques to collect the data. The object of this research is the students on second semester especially group A English Department of Nommensen HKBP University. There were fifteenth of students as a sample. The data were the errors are collected identified and classified based on five errors According to Dulay et al (1982; 139) that specifies three types of errors namely omission, addition and misformation. The result showed (1) the most frequent category of forming countable and uncountable nouns errors contribute by the students of Second semester English Department of Nommensen HKBP University were omission error with the frequency 57.90%, the second is Misformation error with frequency (31.57%), and the lowest frequency of errors was in addition error with the frequency (10.52%) .