AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ERRORS IN USING SIMPLE PAST TENSE IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT BASED ON SURFACE STARTEGY TAXONOMY AT STATE OF ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018

ULFA, IHYA APRONISA (2018) AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ERRORS IN USING SIMPLE PAST TENSE IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT BASED ON SURFACE STARTEGY TAXONOMY AT STATE OF ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Raden Intan Lampung.

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Abstract

In learning a language, making mistakes is normal, it is hardly believed that we do not make any mistakes since we are in process of learning things new for us. Mistakes and errors have the same meaning but they are different especially from the view of language learning. Both mistakes and errors are about wrong ideas of things. A mistake is based on knowledge that the students have, but have not been applied properly. It means that the students have known the rules of the language but they misapply them when they speak or write. Errors are different as they reflect that the students have not got enough knowledge of the language rules so they cannot even apply them in their speaking and writing English. The objectives of this research were to know what kinds of errors the students made along with the percentage of each in their recount texts based on surface strategy taxonomy. The population of this research was the fourth semester students of State Islamic University English Departement in the academic year 2017/2018. The writer used the purposive random sampling techniques in this research, so the writer only took one class which was the lowest based on the result of the interview about essay writing. From the result of lecturer's interview, the lecturer gave student’s work in writing recount text in class F. There were 26 numbers. The writer analyzed the data by using percentage formula and classified the data into the types of errors based on surface strategy taxonomy, i.e. addition, omission, misformation and misordering. From the research, the writer found some errors in their writing of recount text. This research result shows the percentage of the Misformation errors is 75%, Omission 10,8%, Misodering 7,4% and addition 6,8%. The percentage of the misformation errors is 75%. So, it shows that the students still found a lot of difficulty forming the words. They made misformation errors the most and misordering errors the

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