Abstract
This study aims at finding empirical evidence of the most common types of grammatical errors and sources of errors in recount texts written by the first-year students of SMAS Babul Maghfirah, Aceh Besar. The subject of the study was a collection of students’ personal writing documents of recount texts about their lives experience. The students’ recount texts were analyzed by referring to Betty S. Azar classification and Richard’s theory on sources of errors. The findings showed that the total number of error is 436. Two frequent types of grammatical errors were Verb Tense and Word Choice. The major sources of error were Intralingual Error, Interference Error and Developmental Error respectively. Furthermore, the findings suggest that it is necessary for EFL teachers to apply appropriate techniques and strategies in teaching recount texts, which focus on past tense and language features of the text in order to reduce the possible errors to be made by the students.
Highlights
In Indonesia, English has been taught as a foreign language
Based on the problem that has been elaborated, this study aims at identifying the most common types of grammatical errors made by the students in writing recount texts and the sources of the identified errors
There are two research questions that are concerned respectively with the common types of errors and the sources of errors that student made in writing recount texts
Summary
In Indonesia, English has been taught as a foreign language. According to Curriculum of 2013, English is learnt by students since they are in class seventh. Harmer (2004) states that writing and speaking are totally different, where in writing students have a lot of time to brainstorm their ideas and organize them carefully in contrast to what they do in oral activities. Students can negotiate and confirm the meaning directly to those involved in the process, while to communicate through writing, a writer should carefully organize their ideas by properly using vocabulary and grammatical choices. This has to be done to ensure that the piece of writing can be coherent to any potential readers
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