An Error Analysis Recount text of Thai students Learning English in Jakarta in The 2018/2019 Academic Year

dr. sunarta, s.e., m.m. ; drs. bambang sumaryanto, m.m; dr. roslaini, m.hum; drs. h. susilo wardoyo, m.pd.;

MADAWI MUSOR. NIM: 1201065140. An Error Analysis Recount text of Thai students Learning English in Jakarta in The 2018/2019 Academic Year. A Paper, Jakarta: The Study Program of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA (UHAMKA), Jakarta, 2018.
The objective of the study was to find out the most types and sources of errors made by the Thai students learning English in Jakarta. In collecting the data, the writer gave the recount writing test to the students. Then the writer analyzed the writing errors done by the Thai students. This research which consists of 20 students, were conducted at several Universities such as UHAMKA, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, University of Muhammadiyah Jakarta. In this research, the writer took each students as the sample randomly from each University.
The reason of choosing recount text for this research was the writer assumed that it would be easy for Thai students in expressing their ideas because they all already studied about the recount text before.
The study showed that the most typical of error done by the Thai students were verbs tense with 33.00% in the first rank, followed by Spelling with 13.00%, capitalization with 11.00% in the second and the third rank. After that, the fourth rank was adding a word with 8.00%. Omit a word with 7.14% in the fifth and Singular-Plural with 6.00% in the sixth rank. The last, word form and Punctuation with 4.00%.
Furthermore, the most sources of error done by Thai students were (intralingual transfer) with 90.00%. They made errors because of the failure of the students in understanding the rule of target language. Next errors made by the Thai students were caused by interference of the mother tongue (interlingual transfer) with 10.00%.
The results of the data analysis have shown that the most error for Thai students was error in verb tense. From that result, it was assumed that the students did not aware about the using of past form of verb in the recount text, or even they did not know the past form of verb form some words. It indicates that the students need more practice in order to develop their writing skill.