AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS' ERRORS IN WRITING RECOUNT

Zakia Permata Sari, Muhammad Sukirlan, Sudirman Sudirman

Abstract


Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk (1) mengetahui kesalahan siswa dalam menulis teks recount dan menentukan tipe kesalahan berdasarkan taksonomi kategori linguistik, taksonomi siasat permukaan, dan taksonomi efek komunikatif dan (2) menginvestigasi alasan siswa membuat kesalahan.  Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah 31 siswa kelas X4 SMAN 1 Pesisir Tengah tahun ajaran 2013/2014. Metode yang digunakan adalah kualitatif deskriptif. Instrumen dari penelitian ini adalah tugas menulis dan wawancara. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa berdasarkan taksonomi kategori linguistik, kebanyakan siswa membuat kesalahan siktaksis. Berdasarkan taksonomi siasat permukaan, kesalahan terbanyak yaitu pada kesalahan penghilangan. Berdasarkan taksonomi efek komunikatif, siswa banyak membuat kesalahan lokal. Kesalahan yang dibuat siswa terjadi karena kurangnya pengetahuan siswa terhadap tata bahasa Inggris dan pengaruh dari bahasa pertama mereka.

This research was intended to (1) find out the student’s errors in writing recount text and determining the types of error based on linguistics category taxonomy, surface strategy taxonomy, and communicative effect taxonomy and (2) investigate the students’ reason for making the errors. The subjects of this research were 31 students of class X4 at SMAN 1 Pesisir Tengah of 2013/2014 academic year. The method used in this research was descriptive qualitative. The instruments of this research were a writing task and interview. The result showed that based on linguistics category taxonomy, mostly students made syntactic errors. Based on surface strategy taxonomy, mostly students made omission error. Based on communicative effect taxonomy, mostly students made local errors. The errors made by the students happened because of the students’ lack of knowledge of English grammar and also the influence of their first language.

Keywords: recount text, students’ error, writing

    

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