AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF USING SIMPLE PAST TENSE ON STUDENT’S WRITING RECOUNT TEXT: A CASE OF TENTH GRADE OF SMA N 1 MRANGGEN IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023

Faizah, Iis. 2024. An Error Analysis of Using Simple Past Tense on Student’s
Writing Recount Text: A Case of Tenth Grade of Sma N 1 Mranggen in Academic
Year 2022/2023. Final Project, English Education Study Program, Faculty of
Language and Arts Education, Universitas PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Drs. M.
Wahyu Widiyanto, M.Pd. Advisor II: Dra. Maria Yosephin W.L., M.Pd..
Doing error analysis can be one of the best ways to determine and provide
information on student needs in the learning process. This research aimed to
identify and describe the causes of mistakes in students' recount text composition
using the simple past tense. In this research, the researcher used descriptive and
qualitative research. For collecting data, the writer used students’ writing recount
text test of tenth-grade students of SMA N 1 Mranggen. From the analysis, it was
found that students made all types of errors. The total of students’ errors was 167-
word errors from 34 texts. It was divided into four different types of errors.. Those
were omission with 87 errors (52,09%), misformation with 67 errors (40,11%),
addition with 67 errors (4,2%), and misordering with 5 errors (3,6%). The
researcher also found that the most dominant writing error type made when
employing the simple past tense is omission type with 87 errors (52,09%) of total
errors under the categorization of irregular past. In this case, the researcher found
as many as 21 errors or 10, 16% in the omission of irregular past based on cause of
error namely Interlingual and Intralingual cause of error.
Keywords: error writing, simple past tense, recount, text