ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS COMMITTED

BY THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI 1

BANJAR IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXTS.

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English is particularly important to integrate one
country with other countries, in politics, economy,
and education (Agustina, 2016).
Evans (2009) may underline the decision of
determining English as a school subject. Evan
asserted that English is such a crucial subject, so
central to pupils’ educational, cultural and social
development, become subject to significant
external pressures, often of an overtly political
nature.
Manik & Sinurat (2015) state that writing is a process of
placing thought, ideas, opinions, experiences, events,
and histories such as writing letters, notes, shopping list,
etc.

Asrifan (2015) states that writing is filling a gap to

express ideas, feeling, and opinions.

Wahyuni (2016) states that writing is a complex

activity, where students should know how to
generate, organize their ideas, and understand
some aspects of the writing content, so, they can
state clearly their purposes in their writing.
Hourani & Randall (2008) explain that writing becomes to
be considered and chosen when “higher level skill”, such as
organization, content, and structure, and “lower level skills”,
like punctuation and the choice of vocabulary items and the
structures of grammar are taken into account.

Bathstone (1994) states that language without

grammar would be chaotic and cause problem such as
grammatical errors either writing or in speaking.
Brown (2000) states that the reasons why students find
difficulties in writing because the difference of the
structure of the learners’ mother tongue with the structure
of their target language.

Chin (2010) states that all languages have a

grammar and one of them has its own grammar.
Watcharapunyawong & Usaha (2013) state that error is
produced due to the fact that the students may not be able
to identify what is correct and incorrect.

Brown (1994) also state that error is noticeable

deviation from an adult grammar, reflecting the
interlanguage competence of the learner.
Artana (2012) conducted similar research about the
students’ grammatical errors. Artana conducted research
which had purposed to find out grammatical errors that
were made by VII A6 students of SMP Negeri 1
Singaraja in writing descriptive text. The result of the
study showed that the students still found difficulties in
writing using proper grammar. Based on the study that
was conducted by Artana, the students found difficulties
in writing using proper grammar in the used of verb,
article, preposition, and pronoun.
1. Statements of the Problem

1. What kinds of grammatical errors are made by the tenth grade

students of SMA Negeri 1 Banjar in writing recount texts?

2. What are the sources of grammatical errors made by the tenth

grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Banjar in writing recount texts?

2. Purposes of the Study

1. To identify the kinds of grammatical errors frequently made by the

tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Banjar in writing recount texts.

2. To find out the sources that cause the tenth grade students of SMA
Negeri 1 Banjar to make errors in writing recount texts.