The Analysis of Grammatical Error in Students’Recount Text Made by the Eighth Grade Students of SMP N 1 Gombong in the Academic Year of 2016/2017

Abstract

This study is about analyzing students’ errors in writing recount text. The classification of errors is based in Keshavarz. The aim of this study is to find out types of errors and dominant errors in writing a recount text made by the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Gombong in the Academic Year of 2016/2017. This study uses descriptive qualitative as its research design because the researcher would like to describes what errors made by the students in writing recount text. The researcher uses written test for students to make a recount text in collecting the data. The result of this research shows that there are four types of errors occurred in this research. The most error is omission (89 or 47.8%), the second place goes to substitution (67 or 36%), the third is permutation (18 or 9.7%), and the last is addition (12 or 6.5%). The researcher hopes that this thesis will be useful for English teachers, students, and next researcher.