BEATRIX DEME Pengarang JHON BHAE Dosen Pembimbing 2 LAURENSIUS KIAN BERA Dosen Pembimbing 1 Alexander Home Kabelen Ketua Penguji John Bhae Penguji 2 Laurensius Kian Bera Penguji 1

This study is entitled “An analysis of grammatical errors in translating Indonesian narrative text into English by the eight grade students of SMPN 03 South Golewa. The aim of this study was to know the errors in translating Indonesian narrative text into English by the eight grade students of SMPN 03 South Golewa. The method used in this study was descriptive. The population of this study was class VIII of SMPN 03 South Golewa. The writer took 20 students from one class as the sample. The data compiled were analyzed descriptively in order to find out the types of errors. It was found that the students made the following errors; omission errors, misinformation errors, addition errors and misordering errors. The percentage of each type of error was; omission 16.55%, misinformation 55.17%, addition 23.44% and misordering 4.83%. The most frequent errors made by the students was misinformation. Keywords: Errors, Translating, Narrative