1 Writing competence is one of the four language skills that must be
acquired by the students. Then, the writing skill is very important than those others skills.
2 Recount text is one of materials that are taught in Senior High School not
only in the first year, but also in the second years. The students should master this material in which they can learn past grammar which is also
important in daily life. 3
Grammar is an important aspect of language, so it must be learned by the students in order they can really use language to communicate.
4 Interlanguage is important process and system happens when someone
learns second language. It is important to be learnt because it explains what happened when someone learns language.
1.5 Significance of the Study
Regarding to the factual phenomena which is mentioned above, this research is conducted with some expectations which are able to give some
following contributions: 1
For the teachers This research will give and provide a deeper understanding about
interlanguage, so the teachers can considerate what the learners do and what happens to their students when learning language. Also, by studying
the students’ errors and interlanguage, teachers can decide the best steps or method in learning language.
2 For the students
By this research, the students are helped in solving their problems in studying recount text and also grammar as well as will motivate students
for learning English.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Previous Study Related to the Topic of the Study
There are lots of studies about interlanguage theory and also grammatical errors. In this study, the writer takes several previous studies related to the topic of
the study to support this final project. The first study is a study written by Endang Fauziati 2011, entitled
Interlanguage and Error Fossilization: A Study of Indonesian Students Learning English as A Foreign Language. This study was conducted to find out the
characteristics of interlanguage mostly fossilization, and the result stated that the grammatical errors made the students are dynamic, they are not fossilized. They
can be minimized through external pedagogical interventions such as grammar instruction. Moreover, all of the interlanguage’s characteristics problems can be
solved. The second study is the study written by Ali Akbar Khansir 2012,
entitled Error Analysis and Second Language Acquistion. It found out that the errors analysis, contrastive analysis, and interlanguage are really important in
second language acquisition. Therefore, learning learners’ errors are important as an integral part of language learning which is used in teaching grammar,
linguistics, psychology, etc.
The third study is the study written by Placido Bazo Martinez and Marcos Penate Cabrera 2002, entitled Input and Interlanguage in the EFL Classroom: A
Case Study with Primary School Teachers. The purpose of the study was to learn the interlanguage and the different ways teachers manage to make their oral input
comprehensible to children in their first or second year of learning English as a Foreign Language. Then, the result of the study is that the interlanguage is as
expected in young learners when they are addressed in English. Those studies have some similarities and also differences with the study
which writer does. The similarity is in the theory used, and the differences are on the object of the study.
2.2 Theoretical Review
2.2.1 Definition of Grammar
People need language to communicate, and language itself needs grammar to be used in communication. Because every language in the world has its own
grammar as a rule, people need to learn it so that the language they use can be understandable.
The definition of grammar is explained by Swan edited by Simpson 2011: 558, he calls grammar as ‘device’. Moreover, he explains that grammar as a
device solves the language problems such as ordering, movement, etc. Languages solve these problems essentially by the devices that we
call ‘syntax’ and ‘morphology’, supplementing purely lexical information by establishing ordering and movement conventions, changing the forms
of words, and using function words like English may or not . These devices – grammar – make it possible to distinguish. . . . They permit the
