An Analysis On Error In Writing Recount Text Made By Tenth Grade Students Of SMK Negeri 1 Banyudono In 2017/2018 Academic Year

The research is about Error analysis. The main aims of this research are: to describe the types of error were made by the tenth grade students of SMK Negeri 1 Banyudono and to explain the sources of error were made by tenth grade students of SMK Negeri 1 Banyudono. The data were taken from the errorneous sentences in writing paragraph of recount text made by tenth grade students of SMK Negeri 1 Banyudono in 2017/2018 academic year. The type of this research was quantitative research. The techniques of data collection of this research were divided into some steps, there were: (1) Asking the learners to write recount text based on theme that writer gives (2) Reading the result of writing recount text was made by students (3) Finding the error of recount text (4) Dividing errors into the types based on linguistic category and surface strategy taxonomy. The underlying theory used in this research were linguistic category and strategy taxonomy Theory proposed by Dulay’s theory. Based on Dulay and Krashen (1982: 146-150) writing errors can be classified into four categories. They are, linguistic category taxonomy, surface strategy taxonomy, comparative taxonomy, and communicative effect. The result showed that there were one hundred and eighty eight errors made by thirty students, which were categorized into two elements, as follows: lexical error, and syntactical error. Lexical errors consist of 70 errors (37,23%) and Syntactical errors consist of 118 errors (62,76%). The data showed that the highest error was in wrong spelling that include in lexical errors. Many students confuse to differentiate between pronunciation and spelling. Keywords : error analysis, errors, writing, recount tex