Students’ Errors In Writing Recount Text

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This study aims to analyze the type errors and dominant errors of students’ writing recount text
made by the eighth grade student of MTs.Laboratorium UIN SU Medan.This study is a
qualitative research.The respondents of this study were 31 students of the eight grade of
MTs.Laboratorium UIN SU Medan.Recount text tells an event or an experience that have
already happened in the past. It is not easy to write recount text, especially in expressing a short
text of recount text. It is because a recount text needs imagination and feeling to write a story. In
recount text, there are some language feature that students usually feel hard to write, most of the
students often using present tense, even though the teacher have told them to use past tense.The
type errors found in students writing recount text were omission, addition, misinformation, and
misordering.The errors in omission occurred when the students did not complete to writing the
sentences. The error in addition is when the students add words that shouldn’t be in the
sentence. The error in misinformation is when the students fail to choose word form and error in
using simple past. The errors in misordering is when the students incorrect placement of a
morpheme or a group of morpheme. The data analysis was done in five steps through: Error
detection, Locating error, Describing error,Classifying error, Counting error. Based on the
findings, the type errors found in students writing recount text were omission, addition,
misinformation, and misordering. From result of this study the dominant error made by students
is misinformation, The number of the highest error is 59,70% with the total of errors is 120. The
second error is omission which the percentage of error is 21,90% with the total of errors is 44.
Then the third error is misordering which the percentage of errors is 9,95% with the total of
errors is 20. The lowest error is addition which the percentage of error is 8,45% with the total is
17 errors

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