The researcher gets data from Accounting Education students in English Tutorial Program ETP at Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta. The following
sentences are the examples of errors written by Accounting Education students: “There I swiming with father and brother” is categorized into morphological error.
The word “swimming” has misordering of spellings because the word “swimming” is very influence the content of the sentence. The correct word is “swimming”. The
error happens in the morphological aspect. An analysis of the sentence is wrong used of the article is categories into syntactical error; “before home we took [ ] time to eat
first” should be written “Before home we took a time to eat first”. In the sentence, it is finding the type of error called omission. The other error happens on the sentence
“The view [ ] very beautiful”. The sentence should be written “The view was very beautiful”. The error has omitted was as the predicate of the sentence. It has
influenced the content of the sentence and wrong on the grammatical. After the current study categorizes the error based on the language
component, the next discussion is remedial teaching. The most important in the remedial teaching is helping the learners’ have more better progress in writing
recount text and they do not make errors again in the other times. Most of students still make the errors, or they do not understand the elements of writing recount text.
Based on the phenomena above, the current study was interested to take the
title “AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON RECOUNT TEXT WRITTEN BY STUDENTS OF ACCOUNTING EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY ON
ENGLISH TUTORIAL PROGRAM ETP AT MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA”.
B. The scope of the Study
In this research, the current study limits the research on discussion of error analysis in writing recount text, which has been written by students of Accounting
Education on English Tutorial Program ETP at Muhammadiyah University of
Surakarta.
C. Research Question
The research question of the research is related to analyze errors found in recount text written by students of Accounting Education in English Tutorial
Program ETP at Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta. The research question in this research as follows:
1. What are the types of morphological error found in recount text written by the
students of Accounting Education on English Tutorial Program ETP at Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta?
2. What are the types of syntactical error found in recount text written by the
students of Accounting Education on English Tutorial Program ETP at Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta?
3. What are the types of discourse error found in recount text written by the
students of Accounting Education on English Tutorial Program ETP at Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta?
4. What is the frequency of the type of error found in recount text written by the
students of Accounting Education on English Tutorial Program ETP at Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta?
5. What are the sources of error found in recount text written by the students of
Accounting Education on English Tutorial Program ETP at Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta?
D. Objective of the Study
Based on the research question, the objectives of this research are as follows:
1. To describe the types of morphological error found in recount text written by the
students of Accounting Education on English Tutorial Program ETP at
Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta.
2. To describe the types of syntactical error found in recount text written by the
students of Accounting Education on English Tutorial Program ETP at
Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta.
3. To describe the types of discourse error found in recount text written by the
students of Accounting Education on English Tutorial Program ETP at
Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta.
4. Identifying the frequency of errors found in recount text written by the students
of Accounting Education on English Tutorial Program ETP at Muhammadiyah
University of Surakarta.
5. Identifying the sources of error found in recount text written by the students of
Accounting Education on English Tutorial Program ETP at Muhammadiyah
University of Surakarta.
E. Significance of the Study
