ERRORS IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT MADE BY THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N 2 NGEMPLAK BOYOLALI IN 2015/2016 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

This study was aimed to identify the types of errors made by the eighth
grade students of SMP N 2 Ngemplak Boyolali in writing recount text,
especially to identify the types of lexical, syntactical, and discourse errors,
and to find out the frequency of each type of errors, dominant type of errors,
and the sources of errors. The type of this research was descriptive
qualitative research. In collecting the data, the writer used elicitation. It
consisted of four steps; the writer gave explanation about recount text,asked
the students to make recount text with the topic given, read and marked the
types of errors in the students writing composition, wrote the erroneous
sentences and classified all types of error based on linguistic category and
surface strategy taxonomy. The technique for analyzing data were
identification of errors, classifying into error types, describing the frequency
of error, describing the dominant type of error, analysis of the sources of
error and describing the purposed remedial teaching. The result of the study
showed that lexical errors was 15,51 % consisting of False friend (similar in
meaning), False friend (similar in form), Wrong spelling, and Code
switching. Syntactical errors was 79,08 %, consisting of Verb (addition of
verb, misuse of verb in past tense, addition of to in present tense), Noun
(omission of –s in plural marker, omission of possessive adjective, addition
of –s in plural marker), BE (omission of BE, addition of BE in past tense,
misuse of BE), Pronoun (omission of –s in possessive pronoun ), Phrase
(misordering noun phrase), Article (omission of article the, omission of
article a , addition of article the), Preposition (omission of preposition,
addition of preposition, misuse of preposition ), Conjuction (omission of
conjuction), Sentence Construction (omission had as predicate, omission of
subject). Discourse errors was 5,36 %, consisting of generic structure and
conjuction. The dominant type of errors was the misuse of verb in past tense.
The writer also found two sources of errors, namely Interlingual transfer and
Intralingual transfer.
Key words: Error Analysis, Linguistic Category Taxonomy, Recount
Text, Surface Strategy Taxonomy