| סיכום: | Narrative compositions provide essential information regarding the narrators'"
linguistic competence. This study was conducted to explore the use of passive
'structures in ESL narrative compositions; specifically, to describe the passive voice
structured by the Malay students of SMK Tanjung Datuk in their ESL narrative
. compositions, and to describe the effect of their mother tongue (the Malay language)
in structuring the passive sentences in English. The study combined both quantitative
and qualitative methods, using the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) by" loan
Bresnan (1970) as the theoretical framework. LFG was chosen as the framework of
the study as it involves both constituent structure and functional structure in sentence
analysis. Therefore, a better illustration and explanation on the function-dependent
rules like passivisation across languages are better portrayed. The sample for this
study involved only 30 Form 4 Malay students (the participants) of intermediate level
of proficiency, from SMK Tanjung Datuk, Pengerang, Johor, The participants were
given a question on a narrative composition taken from the real 2014 1119SPM
English Paper to be answered within one hour. Two interview sessions with three
participants and the two inter-raters for this study were also conducted in order to
support and clarify the data gathered. The findings showed that the structures of the
passive voice in the ESL narrative compositions of "the. participants comprised
adjectival, resultative and verbal passives. The participants were able to utilize the
passive voice in their ESL narrative compositions, but the structures written were
mostly inaccurate due to the influence of their mother tongue (the Malay language) in
constructing the passives in the English language, whereby a negative transfer occurred
from LIto L2 in terms "ofthe sentence types, sentence patterns and the formation of the
pass.ive verbs."
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