AN ERROR ANALYSIS STUDENTS’ RECOUNT WRITING OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMAN 2 WEST JAKARTA IN THE 2013/2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

hafish fadhillah akbar; burhayani, m. pd.; nurhandayani, m. pd.;

ADITYA HERMAWAN PRATAMA. NIM: 1001065005. An Error
Analysis Students’ Recount Writing of the Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 2 West
Jakarta in the 2013/2014 Academic Year. A paper, Jakarta, The English Study
Programme, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of
Muhammdiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2014.
This research was conducted on May 13th 2014. The purposes of this
research are to know the types and the sources of error made by the Tenth Grade
Students of SMAN 2 West Jakarta, especially in recount writing so that the
teacher can make the appropriate remedial teaching. The writer used the writing
task as the instrument of the research. The sample of the respondents was 32
students of X IPA 2. Then the writer used the descriptive analytical method to
describe the data analysis based on the discovery. In analyzing errors, he confined
the research into the grammatical aspects stated by Betty Schramper Azar while
the sources of error stated by Brown.
The result of the research showed that most of the students made errors in
word choice with 247 errors on percentage 23.84%, punctuation with 148 errors
on percentage 14.28%, capitalization with 129 errors on percentage 12.45%,
add a word with 108 errors on percentage 10.43%, and verb tense with 101
errors on percentage 9.75%. Then the results of the sources of errors were
intralingual transfer 356 errors on percentage 34.36%, interlingual transfer
306 errors on percentage 29.54%, context of learning 301 errors on percentage
29.05%, and communication strategies 73 errors on percentage 7.05%.