English department (tbi-2) title : students’ error in writing recount text at grade XI MAS Daarul Muhsinin Janjimanahan Kawat Labuhan Batu

Sitompul, Elida Hafni (2020) English department (tbi-2) title : students’ error in writing recount text at grade XI MAS Daarul Muhsinin Janjimanahan Kawat Labuhan Batu. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The research discussed about students’ error in writing recount text. The objectives of this research are to describe the errors of students, to find the dominant error and to describe the causes of the dominant error of students MAS Daarul Muhsinin Janjimanahan Kawat Labuhan Batu at grade XI in writing recount text. This research was conducted through qualitative research. Sources of the data in this research were students from MAS Daarul Muhsinin Janjimanahan Kawat Labuhan Batu at grade XI. There were twenty students as the sample of the research. The instrument of this research was writing test. It used to identify the students’ error, sign the students’ error, classify the students’ error, count the students error to get the dominant error, describe the result of the research and make the conclusion. Based on the research result, it showed that the students committed error into four types: omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. From the frequency of each error types, misformation was the error which most frequently produced by the students. It took 53.78% of the total errors. Moreover, 26.69% errors fell into omission and 11.15% errors fell into addition, whereas, for misordering, it only took 8.36%. The dominant errors occurred because most of the students were difficult in grammar and difficulty in usage of simple past tense in writing recount text.

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