The Error Analysis in Writing Recount Text at the Tenth Grade Students of SMA N 3 Purworejo in the Academic Year of 2015/2016

Abstract

Everyone tends to make error in the process of language learning and use, especially for FL learners. Error Analysis is one of the major topics in the field of second language acquisition research. Errors are an integral part of language learning. The learner of English as a second language is unaware of the existence of the particular system or rule in English language. The learner’s errors have long been interested for second and foreign language researchers. This research is qualitative research. This research is aimed to analyze errors and to know the cause of errors in writing recount text made by the tenth grade students of SMA N 3 Purworejo in the academic year of 2015/2016. The object of this study is the tenth grade students of SMA N 3 Purworejo. The sample is 31 students of the tenth grade students. The data of this study is taken from test and questioner. In collecting data, the test is used to get the data about the ability of the students in writing recount text, and the questioner method to obtain the causes of students’ error in writing recount text. While, in analyzing data, error analysis was used in which there are four steps: identifying errors, describing errors, explaining errors, and error evaluation. The result shows that there are 345 student’s errors consist of overgeneralization error (4 or 1%), omission (111 or 30%), transfer error (40 or 11%), global error (49 or 14%), and local error (161 or 44%). Based on the total result types of errors, the researcher finds that the causes of errors are carelessness (276 or 76%), translation (49 or 13%), and first language interference (40 or 11%). This research is hoped can help readers especially teachers to recognize such causes easily and quickly and be able both to contribute to learners' errors linguistic behavior and to deal with their errors effectively and efficiently.