a Doing interview with the English teacher to know the material and
the understanding of students about recount text. b
Constructing instrument of the study, there are writing task, analyzing grammatical errors guide, and interview guide.
2 The Second Step
a Doing observation on the class.
b Giving writing task instruction.
c Analyzing grammatical errors on students writing.
d Selecting the Subject of interview based on the result of
grammatical errors analyses and the discussion with the teacher. e
Doing interview. 3
The Last Step a
Analyzing data. b
Constructing research report.
3.7 Procedures of Collecting the Data
In conducting this study, the writer came to the Subject class and explained the material about recount text to refresh the students’ memory about it.
Then, the writer gave the students time to choose the topics given and make a free recount text consist of seven until ten sentences of the topic they chose. After
getting their written text, the writer analyzed and described the errors made by the students. Then, after knowing the students who made more grammatical errors
than others and discussed with the teacher to select the Subject of interview, after
that the writer interviewed the selected students to find out the interlanguage process happened and categorized it based on the matrix of interlanguage.
3.8 Technique of Collecting the Data
The main goal of a research is to obtain data Sugiyono, 2010; 308, so collecting the data is the main step in a research. The data in this study was
collected directly by the writer. The techniques of collecting data in this study were:
1 Writing Task Instructions
The writer came to the class twice, and if the students had not got the recount text material from their teachers in the first time the writer
explained about recount text, and then the second time the writer gave the students task to make a recount text.
2 Interview
An interview is conversation with certain intent Moeloeng, 2008: 186. In an interview there are some tools in order the process of interview could
be done well. In this case, the writer prepared an interview guide, a camera, and other tools which could be used during the process of
interview. The purpose of the interview in this study was to get information about
interlanguage process happened during the students learned recount text and practiced it and English in general.
