Abstract:
Writing text is the ability of the students to arrange the idea from one paragraph to others and make efforts to connect the idea cohesively and coherently so that it becomes meaningful. Many students write text, but some of them are not able to write the text based on the correct structures and features of the text itself. Therefore, the teachers are expected to be able to guide the students when they study to write, especially to write text. Recount text is a kind of genre in writing text. Recount text usually tells about event in the past, for example a diary. In this research, the researcher takes the main problems. The main problems are : How is the students’ capability in understanding writing recount text among the tenth grade students of state senior high school 4 of Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013 and What errors made by the tenth grade students of state senior high school 4 of Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013 in writing recount text. The researcher carried out on May 2013 in 4 state senior high school of Puworejo.the researcher took 32 students or 25% from the total number of tenth grade students to do the test. In analyzing data, the researcher uses descriptive analysis technique (percentage). Based on the analysis of the data, there are 59 errors. Based on surface strategy taxonomy, 25 items or 42.38% are omission errors, 17 items or 28.81% are addition errors, 3 items or 5.08% are misordering errors, 14 items or 23.73% are misformation errors and the ability of the students in writing recount text 62.5 is fair category. From the result of the research, the researcher concluded that tenth grade students of state senior high school 4 of Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013 still need to improve their ability to understanding in writing recount text. Hopefully, this study will be useful for the teacher in teaching writing especially recount text and also the students who are concerned with writing subject
