An Error Analysis of the Recount Text Writing of the Second Grade Students of SMP YAKPI 1 DKI Jakarta in the 2019/2020 Academic Year

arianto tugiran; dr. h. bahrul hasibuan, m.ed.;

Ari Viana Sugiyarti: 1301065023 An Error Analysis of the Recount Text Writing
of the Second Grade Students of SMP YAKPI 1 DKI Jakarta in the 2019/2020
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 Jakarta, August 2020.
The objective of the study is to find the empirical evidence of the most
common types and sources of errors in recount text writing that the second grade
students of SMP YAKPI 1 DKI Jakarta made in the 2019/2020 academic year.
The data collection for this research was conducted from the recount text
writing task of the second grade students at SMP YAKPI 1 DKI JAYA Jakarta.
The method used in this research is error analysis that presents the types and
sources of errors the students made in their recount text writing to respond the
writing task which the writer asked them to do. The writer focus on analyzing the
student’s recount text writing to find the types of errors based on Azar’s
classification and sources of errors based on Richards’ explanation. The result of
the analyses is presented descriptively.
The result showed that the common types of errors which the second grade
students of SMP YAKPI 1 DKI Jakarta made in their recount text writing was
Capitalization with the highest percentage 47.3%, and the common sources of
errors that they made was Intralingual errors (over-generalization, ignorance of
rule restrictions, incomplete application of rules, and false concepts hypothesized)
with 73.5%. From this result, it can be concluded that the second grade students of
SMP YAKPI 1 DKI Jakarta still made many errors with the sources come from
intralingual causes errors.