Procedure of Error Analysis

3. Relevant Previous Study

There are some studies related with an analysis on students’ grammatical errors in recount text writing, they are: Nurhikmah 104014000377. An Analysis on Grammatical errors in Students’ Recount Paragraph Writing A Case Study at the Second Year of MTs N 8 Jakarta Barat. Nita Sugiarti 107014000033. An Analysis on Students’ Grammatical Errors in Writing Recount Text A Case Study at First Year Students at SMA Negeri 3 Kota Tangerang Selatan In first researcher, she limited the study such as in verb tense, diction, word form, usage, sentence pattern, pronoun, spelling, and punctuation. But in the second researcher she used Betty Schrampfer Azar’s classification: singular- plural, word form, word choice, verb tense, addomit a word, word order, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, article. The first researcher conducted her research at MTS N 8 Jakarta Barat from 10 th -30 th of November 2010 and she used descriptive qualitative method. The second researcher she conducted her research at SMA Negeri 3 Tangerang Selatan from January 2 nd -20 th 2012 and used the same method with the first researcher. The sample of first researcher consisted of 34 students but only 30 students who did the test because 3 students were sick and 1 student was absent. Meanwhile, the population of second researcher was the first year students at SMA Negeri 3; there are 231 students divided into 7 classes. The sample she used purposive sampling that is comprised of individuals whom the researcher believes would be representative of those found in a given population. The sample of this research was class X6 33 students but the writer only took 30 students because 3 students were absent. And the result of first researcher the commonest errors of grammatical aspects that the second grade students of MTS N 8 do in writing recount paragraph is usage with the total errors of168 errors or 42.32. The second is tenses verb tense with the total errors of 99 errors or 24.94. The third error is sentence pattern with the total errors of 61 or 15.36. For the second researcher the result she concluded the most grammatical errors made by the first year students of SMA Negeri 3 Kota Tangerang Selatan in writing recount text is verb tense 152 errors. The second is addomit a word 70 errors and the third is punctuation 65 errors.