The Error Analysis of Word Choice or Diction Used by Students in Writing Recount Text at the Seventh Semester of English Education Program Muhmmadiyah University of Purworejo in the Academic Year of 2016/2017

Abstract

This study was conducted under consideration that past tense plays important role in writing past experience. This thesis has three objectives. First, it aims to identify the error categories of word choice in writing recount textat Seventh Semester of English Education Program Purworejo Muhammadiyah University in the Academic Year of 2016/2017. Second, it aims to discover the frequency of errors. And third, it is aimed at finding out the dominant error. This thesis uses descriptive qualitative as the research design. The subject of the research was the seventh Semester of English Education Program Purworejo Muhammadiyah University in the Academic Year of 2016/2017which consisted of 17 students. The subject of the research is taken from Based-Genre Writing in short-semester class. The instrument that the researcher uses to collect the data is written test. The result of the study shows that students made deviations in word choice. In superficial categories, the total errors of each kind are 32 (19.51%) errors in morphosyntactic categories and 46 (25.04%) errors in pragmatic (register and text deictic) categories. Meanwhile, in complementary categories, there are, 13 (7.93%) errors in lexical semantic problems, 3 (1.82%) errors in collocational problems, and 3 (1.82%) errors in logicality, overlap, and topic knowledge categories. The other result of this research shows that the most dominant difficulty made by students in writing recount text was lexical syntactic problems with 67errors (40.85%).