An Error Analysis in Writing Recount textof The 10th Grade Students of SMA Nasional3 BahasaPuteraHarapanPurwokerto

This research was aimed at knowing the types and the frequency of errorsin writing recount text. Basically, knowing grammar is more needed in writing text well. However, most students lack of attention in grammar. This condition also happened in most students of SMA Nasional 3 BahasaPuteraHarapanPurwokerto. Although, this school has an English program, there are still many students who made errors in writing. To find out types of errors and frequency of errors of students’ writing in more detail, error analysis is needed.It was useful to improve writing skill and provide the solutions how to analyze students’ errors in writing recount text in order to be able to do it well. This research used a descriptive qualitative method. Data sources of this research are 44 students’ writing from two classes, exact and social classes. After the data were collected, the researcher identified and classified the data based on Azar(2003: A29). This research used error analysis method to analyze the data. There were 4 steps; identification of errors, classification of errors, calculation of errors and drawing conclusion. This research found that there were 396 from 434 sentences which contain errors in writing recount text with the most frequency of errors is ‘verb tense’ and the lowest is ‘meaning not clear’.There were 37.37% students who made errors in verb tense (225 errors), 9.8% students who made errors in run-on sentence (59 errors),8.97% students who made errors in omission (54 errors), 7.48% students who made errors in addition (45 errors), 7.48% students who made errors in punctuation (45 error), 6.48% students who made errors in word choice (39 errors),6.31% students who made errors in word form (38 errors),6.15% students who made errors in capitalization (37 errors), 3.32% students who made errors in singular-plural (20 errors),2.32% students who made error in incomplete sentence (14 errors), 1.99% students who made errors in spelling (12 errors), 1.83% students who made errors in word order (11 errors),0.33% students who made errors in article (2 errors), and 0.17% students who made errors in meaning not clear (1 error).