Iim Imlakiyah. 14111310026. AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS‟ PERSONAL
WRITING RECOUNT TEXT AT THE EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS OF MTs.
ANNIDHOMIYAH CIREBON (QUALITATIVE RESEARCH)
This study is carried out to analyze the most common errors and causes of students‟
personal writing recount text made by the eighth grade student of MTs. Annidhomiyah
Cirebon. This study is qualitative research. The data is presented in descriptive analysis. The
technique of collecting the data is analysis the result of test personal writing recount text
which made by the students and student interview. The respondents of this study are 10
students of the eight grade of Junior High School that taken by random sampling.
Based on the findings, the common errors are found in students‟ personal writing
recount text is omission, addition, misinformation, and misordering. Meanwhile the cause
errors of students‟ are divided into four categories which are interlingual transfer, intralingual
transfer, context of learning and the last is communication strategy.
The result of this study shows the common errors that made by students is
misinformation. The number of the highest of errors is 60% which the total of error is 109.
The second error is omission which the percentage of errors is 22% with the number of error
is 40. Then the third common error is addition which the percentage of errors is 11% with the
total of error is 21. The lowest error is misordering which the number of error is 7% with the
total is 12 errors.
Based on the total result common of errors, the writer find the number of causes errors
that made by student in their personal writing recount text. They are intralingual transfer has
46% or 106. Next cause of errors is communication strategy which has 30 % or 68. Context of
learning is the third causes with the total number 14% or 31 error. The last is intrerlingual
transfer which has 10% or 25 errors.
The results of this study are important to the learning process of English. This study
gives information about the ability of the students when they make writing especially in
personal writing recount text and to know the difficulties faced by the student in writing
personal recount text. The errors that appear in this study can help the teacher to decide
strategies in teaching learning activities and for the learners can help them to know their
weakness in writing personal recount text in order to they will not make same errors.
Key words: error analysis, personal writing recount text, MTs. Annidomiyah Cirebo