AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON THE STUDENTS RECOUNT WRITING AT THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS ON SMK NEGERI 25 JAKARTA IN THE 2013/2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

devita arum yuniar; drs. siswana, m. pd.; dra. roslaini, m. hum.;

UMU HANI.Student identity: 1001065231. An Error Analysis on the Students’ Recount Writing at the Tenth Grade Students on SMK Negeri 25 Jakarta in the 2013/2014 Academic Year. A Paper, Jakarta: The Study Program of English Education, The School of the Teaching Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka, Jakarta 2014.
The objective of the research was to identify and analyse the typical and sources of errors made by the tenth grade students of SMK Negeri 25 Jakarta in recount writing. This research also provided a proper remedial teaching for improving students‟ writing skill. In this research, the writer took one class as the sample which consists of 30 students.
Descriptive analysis was the method which was used by the writer. The writer gave the taks to the students to write a recount writing. After that, the writer analyzed the students‟ work by giving underlined the faultness. In the second meeting, the students‟ recount writing that have analyzed will be back to the students to re-corect. Then the students gave their work back to the writer. The writer re-analyses the faultness. If the students can correct the faultness, it can be called mistake, but if they cannot, it called the error. The result of the students writing was analyzed by using Betty Schramphfer Azar‟s classification for the types or error, while for the sources of error was analyzed by using Doughlas Brown‟s classification.
Based on the result of the research, the most typical errors made by the tenth grade students of SMK Negeri 25 Jakarta were in verb tense with the frequency 30%, capitalization with the frequency 12,43%, word choice with the frequency 12,34%, omit a word with the frequency 11,80%, add a word with the frequency 10,09%, punctuation with the frequency 7,38%, word order with the frequency 5,13%, spelling with the frequency 4,77%, singular plural with the frequency 2,07%, run on sentence with the frequency 1,35%, word form with the frequency 1,26%, article with the frequency 0,54%, incomplete sentence with the frequency 0,45%, and meaning not clear with the frequency 0,36%. Meanwhile, the most source errors made by the tenth grade students of SMK Negeri 25 Jakarta were in intralingual transfer with the frequency 70,81%, context of learning with 21,89%, interlingual transfer with the frequency 5,13%, and communication strategy with the frequency 2,16%. The benefit of the research is give information to the English teachers at SMKN 25 Jakarta about remedial program they should provide and add the writer‟s knowledge about error analysis. The result of the research is to give information to the readers, especially to the English teachers, on the importance of knowing the typical and sources of errors made by the tenth grade students of SMK Negeri 25 Jakarta in recount writing. It is also to inform the English teachers on the importance of giving remedial programs on students‟ descriptive writing to improve their writing ability.