LANGUAGE FEATURES ON STUDENTS’ RECOUNT TEXT WRITING: AN ERROR ANALYSIS

Abstract

Writing is one of the skills of learning strategies. Language can be shown in the form of writing. Students would be able to express their experience and feeling by English writing especially in recount text. In writing text, students often make errors when they write because of their lack grammar understanding. This research purpose was to know what are language feature errors do the students make in writing the recount text. To describe students’ errors, the researcher used descriptive qualitative method and the formula to analyze the data. The eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 1 Toapaya were chosen as the subject with purposive sampling technique. The types of language feature in this study is divided by Derewianka, there are four categories; proper noun, descriptive word, past tense, and word of order. This research shows the students made errors of proper noun (146 errors or 31.33%), descriptive word (92 errors or 19.74%),  past tense (213 errors or 45.70%), and word of order (15 errors or 3.21%). It is concluded that the error of past tense is the highest, and the lowest on error of word of order.