PROCESS TYPES IN STUDENTS� NARRATIVE TEXT

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the process type in students� narrative text. It involves 20 first grader of Department of English Education, University of Kuningan. The title of narrative text given to all respondents is �Rabbit and Twenty Crocodiles.� This study raises two problems: the process types appear in students narrative texts and the errors of the process types occur in students� narrative texts. This research used a descriptive qualitative method to describe the data. As result, by using Derewianka (2002), the process types found in students� narrative texts were material, mental, verbal, and relational process. Material process was the dominant type found in students� narrative texts in which there were 232 material processes from 371 data with percentage 62.53%. It means that, in the text telling about a sequence of happenings and experiences, the characters did many material activities than the other process types. Besides, this research also found three process type errors occurred in students� narrative texts, namely material, verbal, and relational process. Material process is the dominant error occurred in students� narrative texts in which 100 errors occurred in 157 data with percentage 63,7%. In conclusion, considering that students face diffuculties mostly in material process, teacher should deal with its teaching more cautiously. �Keywords: narrative text, transitivity and error, process types