An Error Analysis Of The Students’ Recount Writings Of The Eleventh Grade Of SMK Islam PB Soedirman 2 Jakarta In The 2013/2014 Academc Year

carroll, thomas m.; gigih anggana yuda, m. pd;

AGUS AMARULLAH. 1001065009. An Error Analysis Of The Students’ Recount Writings Of The Eleventh Grade Of SMK Islam PB Soedirman 2 Jakarta In The 2013/2014 Academc Year A Paper. Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education, The Department of Language and Art Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR Hamka, 2014.
This research was conducted at SMK Islam PB Soedirman 2 in East Jakarta on the tenth grade students which consists of 30 students .The objective of this research is to find out the most typical errors made by the students in writing and it is cause. The writer would like to offer some ideas on how to cope with such errors. So, the writer hopes it could give information for teacher to do a proper remedial teaching for improving the students‟ writing skill.
The writer uses a descriptive method. The writer administered a guided task on recount writing. To differentiate errors and mistakes, the writer asked the students do the same test on different day. So, the students wrote 3 paragraph based on the questions asked by the writer.
The study showed that the most typical errors done by the students was in omit a word with 6. 16 %, next punctuation with 7. 58 %, add a word 8. 05 %, word choice with 13. 27%, capitalization with 8. 05 %, verb tense with 26. 24%, and word order 10. 42%. The smallest typical errors done by the students was in meaning not clear with 12. 32 %, spelling with 1. 83%, word form with 0 %, run-on sentence with 0. 94%, incomplete sentence with 1. 42 %, and article with 0. 47%.