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3. To find the reason why the most students of MTs N 8 Jakarta in second grade
made many the grammatical errors in recount paragraph.
E. The Significance of Study
The significance of this study can be divided into two parts, for the English teachers and the students. For the English teachers, by analyzing the
student s’ grammatical errors in writing recount paragraph, this study is useful
for enriching their teaching strategy to be applied in teaching recount paragraph, and to improve their teaching ability. And for the students, the
writer wishes the result of the study would be advantageous for the students in order they can anticipate errors in their writing and as motivation for the
students to make a good writing especially in writing recount paragraph.
F. The Organization of Study
This paper consists of five chapters. The first chapter is introduction, which describes the background of study, the limitation of the problem, the
formulation of the problem, the objective of study, the significance of study, and the organization of study.
The second chapter is the theoretical framework, which explains three matters. The first explains error analysis, started from the definition of error,
the types of error, the sources of error, the goal of error analysis, the procedures of error analysis and the difference between mistake and error.
The second explains writing English, started from the definition of writing, the purpose of writing, and the kinds of writing. The third explains paragraph,
started from the definition of paragraph, the types of paragraph, and the effective of paragraph.
The third chapter is profile of MTs N 8 Jakarta which describes; the description of the school, the English teacher, the teaching-learning English
activities, the curriculum, and the English textbook. The discussion about research methodology and finding which explain
two matters is written in the fourth chapter. First: explain research
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methodology, which consists of the purpose of research, the place and time of research, the method of research, the data and data source of research, the
technique of data collecting, and the technique of data analysis. Second: explain research finding which consists of the data description, the data
analysis, and interpretation data. Finally, the writer tries to give conclusion and suggestion. The writer
also encloses appendix and bibliography completing in research paper.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
