EXPLORING ENGLISH FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL) LEARNERS' ERRORS IN USING PASSIVE VOICE

Passive voice is one of material that must be taught and studied in grammar class. Based on prelinimary and student skor result, some learner still need remidial skor to support their skor in passive voice test. Dealing with the phenomena researcher done research to find out the common error and the factor of error made by EFL Learners’ in using passive voice. This research used descriptive qualitative research metod and learner at second grade of English education department as participant. The researcher conducted three type test and interview as collecting data. The researcher conclude that Be is the higest percentage errors type on three type tests with error on test type one 50% and test type three 40%. Then omission with error percentage type one 31% and type three 37%, Verb 3 with type one 9% and type two 52% errors, Verb 1 with error 43%, Subject/Object with type one 9% and type three 23%, and the lowest error was Verb-ing with error percentage 5%. Researcher conclude that the factor errors made by learner such as Verb 3, Omission, and Be, it was a carelessness. Learners understand about material test but still make error like uncomplete sentences (miss to be), those was mean carelessness.