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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Today, English is the world most widely studied foreign language. Responding to this fact, the government of Indonesia includes it into the
curriculum of education with different level at different major. First, as a local content subject in kindergarten to elementary school, so as compulsory subject in
the junior and senior high school, and also at college level, is taught as complementary subject.
When students learn English, they are expected to be able to be high command of the fourth skill: they are speaking, reading, listening and writing.
Many students think that they have a lot of trouble with writing, because they have false expectations about the writing process. For instance, how easy it should
be and how long it should take. According Hamp-Lyons and kroll, 1997:8, Writing is an act that takes
place within a context, that accomplishes a particular purpose, and that is appropriately shaped for its intended audience
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. It might not be easy for most students to share their ideas through writing
since they find it involves transforming or reworking and also consuming not a little time. They also often find it is harder to write sentences in English language
rather than to do it in Indonesian language since English language differs a lot from their mother tongue from its structure, grammar, lexical meaning,
phonology, and many more. From that situation, in the process of composing a sentence and writing in
English, student may do some errors and mistakes. While errors and mistakes are
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two different things as defined by some experts, Errors cannot be self-corrected by the student while mistake can be
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. From there on, an error analysis takes an important role to identify what
kinds of error that the students do the most in writing, the source of it and also how those errors and mistakes give them feedback in their processes of language
learning. Growing up in this digital era that demands people to be creative, innovative
and critical has constantly change students today became open minded and more critical than their previous generations. People or even student in Indonesia has
used to live with democratize surrounding since 4 years ago which lets them to be free to share their ideas to public as much as they want to.
The demand of being critical thinking make the school of Madrasah Aliyah Nurul falah serpong set up an argumentative essay task in almost every
test like mid test and term test to the students of first grade to the third grade. So this fact enhances not only the need to fulfill the writer’s curiously of
what happen in the school that relate to this to subject, but also the need to know how- well the students whom called critical in their thoughts are pouring their
critical minds into paragraph writing, and these exactly drive the writer to do the field research at the place.
Those are the reasons why the writer is interested in analyzing students’ paragraph writing especially in Recount Text writing, the writer would to like to carry out a
researcher under title “Grammatical Errors on Students’ writing of Recount text at MA Nurul Falah Serpong”
B. Limitation of Study
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