The Analysis Of Student’s Error In Writing Recount Text For Tenth-Grade Students On The Second Semester Of SMA Nusantara 1 Tangerang In 2018/2019 Academic Year

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VINA ALFYANA SIREGAR, NIM: 1401065125. The Analysis of Student’s Error in Writing Recount Text for Tenth-Grade Students on The Second Semester of SMA Nusantara 1 Tangerang in 2018/2019 Academic Year. The Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka, Jakarta 2018.
The aim of the study was to find out and to reassure the empirical evidence
of the most typical error and the sources of error that written by the tenth-grade
students of SMA Nusantara 1 Tangerang. This study was considered as a
qulitative research which employed a descriptive analytical method. The
populations were X social and X science but the writer took X social with 20
students as the sample in this study by using purposive sampling.
The result of the most typical errors revealed that there were four types of
error that placed more than 15%. They are; word choice, add a word, omit a word,
and capitalization Next, the errors that placed approximately 10% was
punctuation. Then, the errors that have the percentage 1-5%. They are; run-on
sentence, word order, verb tense, spelling, word form, meaning not clear,
singular-plural, and Incomplete sentence. Last, the lowest percentage that less 1%
was placed by article. Next, The result of the sources of error revealed that the
highest percentage was intralingual transfer with 80,2% that consisted of add a
word, omit a word, punctuation, capitalization, verb tense, and word choice.
Second, there was communication strategy with 12,18%. It consisted of meaning
not clear, incomplete sentence, spelling, run-on sentence, and singular-plural.
Third, there was interligual transfer with 5,40%. It consisted of word order and
article. Last, context of learning was placed in the lowest percentage with 2,36%.
It only consisted one sources of error, it was word form