An Error Analysis On The Students’ Recount Writing At The Tenth Grade Of SMAN 5 Karawang In The 2018/2019 Academic Year

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MONICA DIAN EKASARI. NIM: 1401065070. An Error Analysis on The
Students’ Recount Writing at The Tenth Grade of SMAN 5 Karawang in The
2018/2019 Academic Year.A paper; The Study Program of English Education,
'Ihe School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of
Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka (UHAMKA), Jakarta 2019.
This research was held at SMAN 5 Karawang. The objective of the study
is to know the typical error on the students' recount writing, to know the sources
of the error, and to design the remedial teaching that the appropriate in order to
reduce the students' errors made by the tenth grade students of SMAN 5
Karawang in the 2018/2019 Academic Year in their recount writing. The sample
of this study were 25 students out of 30 students. The writer asked the students to
make the recount writing based on the instruction given. The writer gave the
topic, such as; "Happiest Holiday". Meanwhile, to differentiate the errors and
mistakes, the writer did the data collection for two times. In the first meeting, the
writer asked the students to make the recount writing task, in the second meeting,
the writer asked the students to revise their mistakes that marked by the writer.
Then, the Writer used Azar's theory for the types of errors and Brown's theory for
the sources errors in analyzing the data.
Based on calculating the results, the most types of errors that the students
made were omit a word error (17%), punctuation error (15%), word form error (
13% ), word choice error (12%), verb tense error (11% ), add a word error (10%),
capitalization error (7%), spelling error (4%), meaning not clear error ( 4% ),
word order error ( 3% ), singular – plural error (1%), run – on sentence error
(1%), incomplete sentence error (0%) and the last article errors (0%). For the
sources of errors, the first rank is intralingual transfer 53%. The second rank is
interlingual transfer 47%.
The result of the data analysis showed that the most typical error was omit
a word and the less were incomplete sentence and article. Those indicates most of
the students need more explanation and remedial teaching from the teacher to
evaluate their writing errors in writing English. Meanwhile, the tenth grade
students of SMAN 5 Karawng also need more practice in order to develop their
writing