Analysis Of Gramatic Errors In Recount Text Writing For Class Viii Students In State 4 Candipuro Junior High School

Abstract

The research aims to explain the types of errors made by VIII grade students of Junior High School State 4 Candipuro in writing recount texts.This type of research is descriptive quantitative. The data is from 30 students’ essays. Data are collected from the results of the student errors in writing the recount text. After collecting data, all errors are identified in several grammatical categories. After being identified, errors are explained to find the source of the error, then classified into the surface strategy taxonomy. The research revealed that the learners committed five types of gramatical errors made by students in their essays, and the five errors are tenses, plural form, article, preposition,subject-verb agreement.Then classified into surface strategy taxonomy, name lyo mission, addition, miformation and misordering. The common errors that aredone by VIII grade students of SMP 4 Candipuro were omissions of tenses.this research also showed that the errors mostly resulted from different linguistic principles of Indonesian and English ( interlingual transfer), and partly from the faulty of overgeneralization of english rules (intralingual transfer). The overt influences of Indonesian to English as well as the generalization of English rules can be used as a reference for teachers and improve teaching techniques. which in turn, can help them to apply the more appropriate to overcome the foreign language learners’errors of the students.