Grammatical errors in writing recount text of The X grade students at MAS NU Batangtoru

Ritonga, Kiki Alipia (2024) Grammatical errors in writing recount text of The X grade students at MAS NU Batangtoru. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research focused on the grammatical students’ error in writing recount text based on surface strategy taxonomy theory at the X grade students MAS NU Batangtoru. The students’ problems in this research were: 1) the students’ vocabulary mastery is low, 2) the students do not know the language features in recount text, 3) the students pay little attention to language features of recount text in each sentence, 4) the students do not understand well how to use language features in the sentences. This research used descriptive qualitative as a method of the research. The participants of the research were 27 students of MAS NU Batangtoru. Based on the result, it is found that students were still lack in writing recount text. They were facing some difficulties, especially in understanding the language features of recount text. They were lack of vocabulary and grammatical knowledge in writing recount text. There were four errors that the students made which are omission, addition, misformation and misordering. The written test shows the percentage of writing errors, including omission errors 40.9%, addition errors with a total of 21.2%, misformation errors 25.7% and misordering errors 12.1%. Based on the percentage, it can be seen the most dominant error made by students are in omission (40.9%) and the lowest error made by students is misordering (12.1%). It is hoped that the students should gain more insight into the various errors, in order to make a better writing.

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