THE ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ LINGUISTICS ERROR IN MAKING PASSIVE VOICE

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the types of linguistics errors and to analyze the causes of the students’ errors in making passive voice at XI Grade of SMK Swasta Pembina Bangsa. Several issues with students' linguistics passive voice were discovered in the field. They were students' difficulty to apply passive voice patterns into different tenses. The next problem was that some students have difficulty distinguishing between active and passive voice because they had less practice outside the classroom. This study used mix research. The participants in this study was the students of the hotel accommodation program and accounting SMK S Pembina Bangsa students in the eleventh grade. To collect the data, the researcher used a test and interviews with students. Based on calculated the data, the result showed that the total errors is 496 errors which were classified into 4 types: omission is 62 cases (12,5%), addition was 116 cases (23,38%), misformation was 155 cases (31, 25%), and misordering was  163 cases (32,86%). As a result, many students made errors in making passive voice related to some items which were caused by some factors: interlingual transfer and intralingual transfer.