Limitation of Study Formulation of the Problem Significance of the Study

two different things as defined by some experts, Errors cannot be self-corrected by the student while mistake can be 2 . 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

In order to prevent misunderstanding and to clarify the problem, it is important to limit and to make the scope of it. In this study, the writer focused on 2 H. Douglas Brown, Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, New York: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.,2000, Fourth edition, p. 217 analyzing the student’s grammatical errors on recount text of Twelfth grade of Madrasah Aliyah Nurul Falah Serpong. To make it easier and more focus, the problem is limited on analyzing the students’ grammatical errors on recount paragraph writing that based on Betty Azar’s grammatical errors classification. Here are the classification: singular plural, word form, word choice, verb tense, add word, omit word, word order, incomplete sentence, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, article, meaning not clear, and run on sentence.

C. Formulation of the Problem

In this study, the writer analyzes the students’ writing in understanding recount text at MA Nurul Falah Serpong. The main problem of this study is “What kind of grammatical errors are faced by the twelfth year students of MA Nurul Falah Serpong in writing recount?” In addition, “What are the possible causes of those errors?”. D. Objectives of the Study In line with the statement above, the objectives of this study are to identify the grammatical errors which students made commonly in writing English recount text and to archive an empirical evidence of students’ most errors at Twelfth Grade of Madrasah Aliyah Nurul Falah Serpong .

E. Significance of the Study

This study uses descriptive analysis research that needs a teaching and learning language’s process observation taken by the writer so then he collected the students’ recount test that the writer gave and analyzed them through classifying their error on using the Standard English in recount text. Lastly, he interpreted the data about what kind of error that mostly made when writing recount text. 4

CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK