AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS GRAMMATICAL ERROR IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT BY THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N 1 KEMUSU 2023/2024

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the types of grammatical error of writing recount text.
Writing is considered as the most complicated skill to be mastered required not only great
vocabularies but also grammar. As Harmer (2004:31) cited in (Wati & Nursyaebah,
2017) states that, when writing, learners often have more time to think than they do in
spoken activities. Therefore, they can stimulate their brain, even consult dictionaries,
grammar books or other reference material to help them. The researcher used descriptive
research. The researcher used written test for students to make a recount text in collecting
the data. Test was used to collected the data. The method of this study was descriptive
research which was conducted from September until October in 2023/2024 academic
year. This subject of the research was students of 8th grade b with 27 students. Miles and
Huberman theory was used to analyze the data consisted of data collection, data
reduction, data display, and data verification. The result of this research shows that there
are two types of errors occurred in this research. The most error is addition (103 or 64%),
the second place goes to omission (57 or 36%). In this research can be concluded that
addition error type is mostly found in the students‘ writing text. The researcher hope this
study can reference students to improve their writing by focusing their errors. This study
also provide an overview for teacher to determine the appropriate method in learning.
Key words : Error analysis, Grammatical, Writing, Recount text