An Error Analysis on the Students’ Recount Writing at the Tenth Grade Students on SMA Malahayati Jakarta Timur in the 2015/2016 Academic Year.

drs. h. susilo wardoyo, m.pd; yudhistira maesyaroh, m.a;

ASRILIA HARJAYANTI .1001065028. An Error Analysis on the Students’ Recount Writing at the Tenth Grade Students on SMA Malahayati Jakarta Timur in the 2015/2016 Academic Year. A Paper, Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education, The School of the Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka, Jakarta 2015.
The objectives of the research were to identify and analyze the types and sources of errors made by the tenth grade students of SMA Malahayati Jakarta Timur in recount writing. This research also provided a proper remedial teaching for improving students‟ writing skill. In this research, the writer took one class, X IPS 3, consisted of 30 students and the writer chose 20 students because the writer assumed that the average scores of the students‟ English ability were homogenous.Descriptive analysis was the method which was used by the writer. The writer gave 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 been to the writer. The writer re-analyzed the faultness. If the students can correct the faultness, it can be called a mistake, but if they cannot fix the mistake, it is called an error. The result of the students writing was analyzed by using Betty Schramphfer Azar‟s classification for the types or errors, while for the sources of errors were 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 SMA Malahayati Jakarta Timur were in verb tenses, with the frequency 30.72%, capitalization, with the frequency 13,54%, punctuation,with the frequency 13,02%, spelling,with the frequency 12,76%, word choice, with the frequency 7.29%, singular-plural, with the frequency 5.46%, meaning not clear, with the frequency 5.20%, omit a word,with the frequency 4.42%, word order, with the frequency 3.38%, run on sentence, with the frequency 1,30%, article,with the frequency 1,04%, word form, with the frequency 0,78%, add a word, with the frequency 0,52%, and incomplete sentence, with the frequency 0,52%.
Meanwhile, the sources of errors mostly made by the tenth grade students of SMA Malahayati Jakarta Timur were in interlingual transfer, with the frequency 47.13%, context of learning,with 20.05%, communication strategies,with the frequency 18.75%, and intralingual transfer,with the frequency 14.06%.This study is then expected to provide the English teacher with the information on the importance of giving remedial programs on the students‟ descriptive writing to improve their writing ability.