Error Analysis of Recount Text: Product of “Your Exciting Holiday”

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to describe what the types of errors were found in the recount text and what the sources of errors; to find out how the errors occurred in the recount text written by students. This research focused students’s errors at eight grade of SMP Negeri 1 Wewewa Tengah. The method used in this study was qualitative research design. The data of this study were taken from their recount texts in the form of essay test to examine types of students’ errors. The researcher also collected data using writing test to find out how the errors occurred. The result of this research indicated that the eight grade student still made errors in their recount texts. It could be seen that errors which committed by students were omission, addition, misformation and misordering. These errors came from the influence of their first language rules (interlingual), some errors occurred because students generalized the rule and applied it incompletely (intralingual).