An Error Analysis of The Students’ Recount Writing of The Eleventh Grade Students of SMK Muhammadiyah 4 West Jakarta In The 2015/2016 Academic Year

dejan muhammad qintara; martriwati, m.pd.; fidaniar tiarsiwi, m.pd.;

RAIHANAH RAMDHANIA. 1201065200. An Error Analysis of the Students’ Recount Writing of the Eleventh Grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 4 West Jakarta in the 2015/2016 Academic Year. The paper, Jakarta: The Study Program of English Education, the School of Teacher Training and Education, the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, Jakarta 2016.
The objective of the research was to find the empirical data of the most typical grammatical errors and the sources of errors in students‟ recount writing made by the students of SMK Muhammadiyah 4 Jakarta in 2015/2016 academic year.
The method used in this research descriptive analysis. The writer organized a guided task on recount writing. After receiving the data, the writer analyzed and classified the students‟ types of errors and found the sources of errors.
The result of the research found that the types of errors on the students‟ writing were error in the word choice (18.57%), add a word (15.67%), punctuation (15.38%), capitalization (13.20%), omit a word (12.19%), verb tense (10.15%), spelling (4.78%), singular – plural (3.62%), word order (3.04%), word form (2.46%), incomplete sentence (0.43%), article (0.29%), and meaning not clear (0.14%). Besides, the result of analysis revealed that the most sources of errors are in the interlingual transfer (28.88%), context of learning (28.88%), followed by communication strategies (21.91%), and intralingual transfer (20.31%).