An Error Analysis On The Students’ Recount Writing At The Tenth Grade Students Of SMA Budhi Warman II Jakarta In The 2016/2017 Academic Year

badru jaman; dr. burhayani, m. pd; fidaniar tiarsiwi, m. pd;

NINE FETRIYANTI. 1201065174. An Error Analysis on the Students’ Recount
Writing at the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Budhi Warman II Jakarta in the
2016/2017 Academic Year. The Paper, Jakarta: The Study Programme of English
Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of
Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, Jakarta 2017.
The research was conducted at tenth grade students of SMA Budhi Warman II
Jakarta in the 2016/2017 academic year. The purpose of this study was to find the
typical errors and the causes of error which were made by the students in writing.
The samples of this study were 37 students. In this research, the writer used
descriptive analytical method. In collecting the data, the writer administered a
kind of writing task to students. Then, the writer analyzed the errors that were
made by the students in their writing. After that, the writer analyzed the types of
error by using Azar‟s theory and the sources of error by Brown‟s theory in the
students‟ writing. The result of the research revealed that common errors on the
students‟ writing were errors in the word choice (19.26%), add a word (19.12%),
verb tense (17.06%), omit a word (12.21%), word order (7.35%), punctuation
(6.76%), spelling (5.15%), capitalization (4.12%), singular-plural (2.65%), word
form (1.91%), run on sentence (1.76%), meaning not clear (1.18%), article
(1.03%), and incomplete sentence (0.44%). Besides, the common errors on the
sources of error were in intralingual transfer (62.33%) and interlingual transfer
(37.67%). After seeing the result of the study, it indicated that some students need
more treatment and remedial teaching from the teacher toward their errors in
English writings