Place and Time of the Study Subject of the Study

To know the students who did grammatical errors in Recount Text was done through an instruction of writing free recount text. From the students’ Recount Text grammatical errors, it was chosen the learners to be interviewed to find out the interlanguage processes happened in it in detail. The technique in choosing the interviewee was done using purposive sampling technique. Purposive sampling is a technique in choosing the sample as the data source with certain consideration. The students who became the Subject of interview were they who made more grammatical errors than other. The amount of the students who became the Subject of interview was based on the need of the data. According to Nasution 1998 quoted by Sugiyono, 2010: 302, the amount of the sample Subject of interview is regarded as enough if it has been on the redundancy level which means that by using other sources of data the writer will not get new information.

3.5 Data

Data in this study is data that was collected from the instruction of writing test, categorizing errors, and interview. The data mentioned was the data of the grammatical errors made by the students in writing recount texts and the interlanguage process happened during writing process in the form of descriptive- qualitative.

3.6 Procedure of the Study

1 The First Step 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