Abstract:
Writing is important aspect in learning English, because writing is
communication in a text form. The aims of this research are (1) to identify the
type of errors made by the eleventh grade students of SMK Batik Perbaik
Purworejo in the academic year 2016/2017, (2) to find out the dominant of errors
made by the eleventh grade students of SMK Batik Perbaik Purworejo in the
academic year 2016/2017.In this research, the researcher uses descriptive
qualitative method. To collect the data, the researcher uses written test. In
conducting the recount text test, the researcher took 45 minutes. The result of this
research showed that (1) the error made by students belong to the most dominant
errors, (2) the total number of omission is 122 errors, it is 27.1% , addition is 100
errors, it is 22.2% , substitution is 189 errors, it is 40.7% and permutation is 45
errors, it is 10% . Based on the explanation above the researcher infers that the
dominant error made by the students is substitution. It caused the students still
confused on the use of simple past tense.
