This thesis examines research on An Analysis of Indonesian Secondary
School Students Error in Using Punctuation in English Narrative Texts. It cannot
be denied as a human being, everyone will not be free from the mistakes or error.
The purpose of this research is to find out the kind of error in using punctuation
on the narrative text and to find out the types of error that are frequently happened
by secondary students. Therefore, in this research the researcher choose to use the
qualitative method to categorize and analyse the error produced by the students.
The data is collected from a text Salty River which is taken from internet. This
research focused on six punctuation, they are comma, full stop, question mark,
apostrophe, quotation mark, and exclamation mark. From the analysis, the result
showed that students produced the errors in using punctuation mark. The most
dominant error produced by students is in using comma, with the total number of
42 errors. And then, it is followed by the error of exclamation mark, with the total
number of 14 errors. Next, error of apostrophes 8 errors, quotation mark 3 errors,
and full stop 2 errors. Furthermore, students‟ errors in using comma were found in
almost of secondary students that have been reviewed through this research. The
researcher also found three types of error that happened by secondary school
students. The most frequently type of error was omission with the total number is
40 items. The second frequently was selection with the total number of error is 20
items. The last type error was addition with the total number is 7 errors.
A. Conclusion
Based on the result of analysis and discussion in the previous chapter,
the researcher concluded in following description below:
1. There were five kinds of punctuation errors are still found on the eleventh
grades students‟ writing narrative text. It is shown that the most frequent
error in which the students committed when using punctuation in writing
narrative. The errors which repeatedly appeared are comma, exclamation
mark, apostrophe, quotation mark, and full stop. Then, the amount of
punctuation errors of comma (,) 42 items, exclamation mark (!) 14 items,
apostrophes („) 8 items, quotation mark (“ “) 3 items, and full stop (.) 2
items. Furthermore, students‟ errors in using comma were found in almost
of secondary students that have been reviewed through this research.
2. In this research, the researcher found three types of error that happened by
secondary school students. The most frequently type of error was omission
with the total number is 40. The second frequently was selection with the
total number of error is 20. The last type error was addition with the total
number is 7 errors.
Thus, it could be concluded that most students made error in applying
punctuation when they complete the narrative essay given by the researcher.
The most kind of error punctuation that happened by students was comma
with the total number of error 42 items. While the most types of error that
frequently happened by students was omission with the total number of
error 40 items.
B. Suggestions
The result of this research was hopefully can inform the teachers
about some of punctuation errors which were produced by the students on
writing subject. The teacher can pay more attention to teach some
punctuation items which the errors are mostly produced. Thus, the students‟
error not only can be decreased but also will not be repeated in the future.
The students have to remember and aware of what errors they are
mostly produced. They should not take some apart of punctuation as they
easy one and pay less attention to these area; comma and exclamation
marks. Therefore, the students have to be aware of these parts of
punctuation as well. Furthermore, before punctuating a text, the students
have to read and understand the text first. It can help them in using some
punctuation. Then, after punctuating it, the students should re-check their
punctuation task. It is needed to make sure of their punctuations task. In
addition, they have to do exercise of punctuation inside or outside the
classroom. It helped to train the students get usual to do punctuation tasks
and avoid to repeat same errors in other tasks and circumstances.
Finally, the researcher also hopes that this research can be as a
reference for other researchers in doing another research about analysis of
punctuation errors in other areas.

STAR20200198

198/2020

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