An Error Analysis of the Students’ Recount Text Writing of the Tent Grade Students of SMAN 46 Jakarta in 2017/2018 Academic Year

m.nurrasyidin., s.e., m.si.; dr. roslaini, m.hum; heni novitasari, m.pd.;

RATNI HASANAH. 1201065203. An Error Analysis of the Students’ Recount
Text Writing of the Tent Grade Students of SMAN 46 Jakarta in 2017/2018
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 2017.
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 SMAN 46 Jakarta in 2017/2018
academic year. The method used in this research was descriptive analysis. The
writer organized a guided task on the 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 study found that the types of errors on the students’
writing were error in the word choice (17.69%), capitalization (15.71%), add a
word (14.62%), punctuation (11.87%), omit a word (10.00%), verb tense (9.34%),
spelling (5.71%), word order (4.73%), word form (4.07%), singular – plural
(2.64%), article (1.32%), meaning not clear (0.99%), run-on sentence (0.88%),
and incomplete sentence (0.44%). Besides, the result of analysis revealed that the most sources of errors were in the interlingual transfer (31.69%), communication strategies (29.00%), context of learning (20.94%), and intralingual transfer
(18.37%).