An Error Analysis Of The Recount Text Writing For The Eighth Grade Students Of SMP Negri 24 Tangerang In The 2018/2019 Academic Year

yenny anggraini; dra. roslaini, m. hum,; drs.zuhad ahmad, m. pd;

Yenny Anggraini. An Error Analysis Of The Recount Text Writing For The Eighth
Grade Students Of SMP Negri 24 Tangerang In The 2018/2019 Academic Year. A
Paper, Jakarta: The Study Programme Of English Education, The School of Teacher
Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2019.
The objective of this study is to find out types and sources of the error made
by the students in writing recount text at the eighth grade on SMP Negeri 24
Tangerang. This study conducted on SMP Negeri 24 Tangerang in the first semester
of the 2018/2019 academic year. The respondent was of 30 students writing. The
writer analyzed the types of errors based on Azar’s theory and the sources of error
based on Brown’s theory in the students’ writing. This study used descriptive
analysis in which errors analyzed in terms of type and sources. The results of the
study revealed that the types of error on the students’ writing recount text were verb
tense (16.6%), punctuation (14.3%), omit a word (12.8%), spelling (12.8%),
capitalization (9%), word choice (8.7%), meaning not clear (7.5%), run on sentence
(7.2%), add a word (5.3%), word order 1.7%, incomplete sentence 1.3%, word form
1.1%, singular-plural (1.1%), and article (0.6%). While the sources of error were
the intralingual transfer errors (36.9%), the interlingual transfer errors (32.4%), the
context of learning errors (23.5%), and the lowest source of the communication
strategies errors (7.2%). After seeing the result of the study, it can be suggested that
the teacher should give remedial teaching to the students to minimize the students’
error in writing recount text