An Error Analysis in Using Passive Voice at Twelfth Grade Students of SMAN 5 Bukittinggi
Muhammad Ryan Firdaus, 2319012. "An Error Analysis in Using Passive Voice at Twelfth Grade of SMA Negeri 5 Bukittinggi". A Thesis. English Education Study Program. UIN Sjech M Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi. There are several problems that underlie this research: First, some students have difficulty in determining auxiliary verbs in passive sentences. Second, some students have difficulty in using past participle in both regular and irregular verbs. Third, some students still have difficulty determining objects consisting of several words. The purpose of this research is to determine types of errors made by students in using passive voice and kinds of errors commonly made by students in each tenses in using passive voice. The method used for this research is quantitative descriptive. The population in this research was 326 students and used purposive technique sampling from 33 students. The instrument used is a grammatical transformation test and used the Bluman formula to calculate error data made by students. The finding showed that there were errors made by class XII students at SMA Negeri 5 Bukittinggi. The types of errors made by students in using passive voice were misformation (207 errors from 486 total of errors or 42.6%), omission (169 errors from 486 total of errors or 34.7%), mis-ordering (82 errors from 486 total of errors or 16.9%), and addition (28 errors from 486 total of errors or 5.8%). The kinds of errors commonly made by students in each tenses in using passive voice were Past Progressive Tense (114 errors from 486 total of errors or 23.5%), Simple Future Tense (86 from 486 total of errors or 17.7%), Simple Past Tense (83 errors from 486 total of errors or 17.1%), Present Perfect Tense (74 errors from 486 total of errors or 15,2%), Present Progressive Tense (68 errors from 486 total of errors or 14%), and Simple Present Tense (61 errors from 486 total of erros or 12.5