THE PHASE E STUDENT’S ERRORS ON SIMPLE PAST TENSE IN WRITING SIMPLE SENTENCES AT SMAN 2 SUTERA, KABUPATEN PESISIR SELATAN

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ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to find out whether Phase E students at SMA 2 Sutera, Kabupaten Pesisir Selatan made errors in writing simple sentences in the simple past tense. This research applied a descriptive method. The population of this research is the Phase E students of SMAN 2 Sutera, Kabupaten Pesisir Selatan, and cluster random sampling technique was used to select the sample that consists of 26 students. The instrument for collecting the data is writing test. The students were asked to write simple sentences in the simple past tense in 40 minutes. To know whether the test is reliable, the reseacher used inter – rater technique. The reliability index of the test is 0.99 indicating that the test is reliable. Then the test is valid in terms of content as it covered the material that the students had learned. Generally, the result of this research showed that the students errors in writing simple past tense are omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. Keywords: Errors ,Writing, Simple Past T