Error Analysis on Students' Writing of Recount Text at Grade Ten in SMK Negeri 1 Bandar Masilam

Abstract

This study aimed to find out students' grammatical errors and know the dominant errorsin writing recount text made by grade ten students in SMK Negeri 1 Bandar Masilam. The writer used some theories of expert Shaw (1905), Corder (1967), Richards (1973), Brown (1980), Crystal (1980), Hormby (1987), Norish (1987), Ur (1996). It used qualitative study. After the data have been collective, the writer found the students in grade ten of SMK Negeri 1 Bandar Masilam got problems in grammatical. Their problems were such as : Tense (41,45%). spelling and punctuation (32,76%), sentence pattern (19,77%), pronoun (3,08%) and preposition (2,57%). It can be concluded that the students in grade ten of SMK Negeri 1 Bandar Masilam didn't know how to write recount text grammatically.