ANALISIS KESALAHAN SUSUNAN KATA DALAM TEKS RECOUNT OLEH SISWA KELAS X SMAN 4 PARIAMAN

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to describe type of error of word order errors that often occured in the use of word order in recount text made by students based on Surface Strategy Taxonomy. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The population of this research is the tenth grade students of SMAN 4 Pariaman in 2017/2018 academic year. The writer used purposive sampling to get the sample. The sample is class X IPA₅, which consists of 34 students. The data in this research were taken by using writing test. The result of this research showed that there were four types of error made by students were omission, adition, misformation, and misordering. There were 57 items or 43,2% of ommision errors, 45 items or 34% of misordering error, 25 items or 19% of misformation errors, and 5 items or 3,8% of addition errors. These errors were conducted because most of the students had not clearly understood of the structure of the sentence in English. To sum up, it showed that made of correct word order in recount text is difficult for students. Furthermore, the sources of error came from two categories : interlingual transfer and intralingual transfer. The dominant source of error was interlingual transfer with 77%.