on the students’ grammatical errors on their recount texts as the medium to analyze the interlanguage IL process happened in it.
3.3 Place and Time of the Study
The study was done in MAN 2 Banjarnegara in academic year 20142015. The writer aimed to find out the varieties of grammatical errors made by the
students in order to be able to reveal the interlanguage happened behind the errors in that school. The study was done in January 2015.
3.4 Subject of the Study
The Subject of this study was the tenth grades students at MAN 2 Banjarnegara. The writer chose the class who had more various scores on their
semester test with the consideration that the class provided information which leaded the writer to the right conclusion. It was based on the thought that the
chosen Subject should be able to provide the information that is needed Sugiyono, 2010: 300.
According to Best 1981:8 a sample is a small proportion selected for observation and analysis. The selection of the sample was because of some
considerations, first that the writer graduated from the school so that the writer would get the permission easily, and second was that MAN 2 Banjarnegara is one
of Islamic Senior High School which is favorite school and there is a tough competition to enter the school.
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
