An Analysis of Students’ Errors in Using Past Tense in Writing Recount Texts at the Tenth Grade Students of SMK Kesehatan Pro-Skill Indonesia.

ABSTRACT Gusnina fitri, (2019): An Analysis of Students’ Errors in Using Past Tense in Writing Recount Texts at the Tenth Grade Students of SMK Kesehatan Pro-Skill Indonesia. The purpose of this research to analyze the tenth grade students’ error in using simple past tense in writing recount text at SMK Kesehatan Pro-Skill Indonesia. This study was a descriptive research. The subject of this research was the tenth grade students of SMK Kesehatan Pro-Skill Indonesia while the object of this research was students’ error in using simple past tense in writing recount text. The researcher used total sampling technique to take the sample, there were 62 students as sample from 62 students. To collect the data, the researcher used document. The document was conducted to know what types of errors were made by the students when they use simple past tense in writing recount text. The result of the error analysis process showed that students committed error into four types: omisson, addition, missformation, and misordering. From the calculation of the data, error of misformation the most frequent errors that done by the tenth grade students of SMK Kesehatan Pro-Skill Indonesia with the percentage 53.1%. Moreover, it is followed by error of omission with percentage 26.9%, errors of misordering with percentage 15.1%, and error of addition by percentage 4.8%. These errors are caused by the learner overgenerates the rules in wrong concept. Keywords: Analysis, Error, Writing, Recount Text