Grammatical Errors on Writing Recount Text by Junior High School Students
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- This study was aimed to analyze the types of grammatical errors on recount text written by junior high school students and find the factors driving the errors. This study employed a qualitative research design that taken from two different grades students of junior high school namely grade eight and nine at SMP Dharma Pancasila. The data were collected by assigning the students to write recount text with the same topic and interviewing the sample to find out the factors why they do grammatical errors. The technique used to collect the data was elicitation technique by Walsh, 2002. Based on the research the result of the study were the students of ninth grade were more capable in writing recount text with the correct sentence patterns, The eight grade led the verb sentence error than the ninth grade, while the contrary occured in sentence structure error. The ninth grade did more errors than the eighth grade. The factors underlying the grammatical error in recount text written by eighth and ninth students were careless, first language interference, and language as a part of language creativity. The main factor of grammatical error written by the students was language interference.