Abstract:
This study deals with an analysis on students‟ errors in writing recount text. The
objectives of this study were (1) to find out the types of error made by students in
writing recount text, (2) to find out the most dominant type of error made by
students in writing recount text. This study was conducted at SMK SWASTA
PAB. 2 HELVETIA with the number of population was 76 students of tent grade
students. They were into two classes. By using purposive sampling, class of X
AP
1
was selected to be the sample of the study with the number of students was
38. Written test instrument was used in this research. The method of the research
was descriptive quantitative method. The result of the test showed that there were
four types of error in writing. They were omission, addition, misformation and
misordering. The dominant types of error in writing recount text was
misformation with 88 or 44% error, then omission with 47 or 23,5%. Next
addition error with 42 or 21%. And the last misordering error with 2 or 11,5%.
The cause of error found in students” writing text, they were intralingual
interference, interlingual interference and carelessness
