Grammatical Error Analysis of Recount Text Writing Made by the Eighth Year Students of SMP Negeri 1 Jember in the 2014/2015 Academic Year

Abstract

This research was intended to know the percentage of each type of grammatical error of the eighth grade students in writing recount texts at SMP Negeri 1 Jember in the 2014/2015 academic year. The research respondents were chosen by using proportional random sampling. The research design used was a descriptive research. The main data of this research were taken from writing tes while interview, and documentation were used to take the secondary data. From the result, it was found that there were four types of grammatical error covering omission, addition, misformation and misordering. The percentage of each grammatical error was omission (49% or 135 items), addition (16% or 44 items), misformation (23% or 65 items) and misordering (13% or 33 items). This result showed that the highest percentage of grammatical error was omission and the lowest percentage was misordering. The students made a lot of grammatical errors in omission because their mother tongue (Indonesia) is different from the target language (English). For example, the use of article in English does not exist in Indonesian. Based on the results above, the suggestions is given to the following people that the findings can be useful for the future researchers as input or information about the students’ grammatical errors especially in recount text writing to conduct a further research with a similar problem and with a different research design such as a classroom action research to develop their grammar mastery at different schools and different level of students.