Analyzing Grammatical Errors in Students’ Recount Writing: A Study at Middle School

Kumala Syai Anjani; Fauris Zuhri

doi:10.47134/jpbi.v3i3.2721

Authors

Kumala Syai Anjani Universitas Negeri Surabaya
Fauris Zuhri Universitas Negeri Surabaya

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47134/jpbi.v3i3.2721

Keywords:

Error Analysis, surface strategy taxonomy, grammatical errors, recount text

Abstract

Writing recount text remains a challenge for EFL students, particularly in the use of grammar and past tense form. Previous studies have mainly focused on identifying grammatical errors without exploring their causes from students’ perspectives. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the types of grammatical errors in students’ recount writing using document analysis and explore the factors causing those errors with conducting FGD. This study employed a qualitative approach involving eighth-grade students at a junior high school. The findings revealed that misformation was the dominant error type, followed by omission, mainly related to verb forms and tense usage. The FGD results showed that intralingual factors were the primary cause of students’ grammatical errors, followed by developmental and interlingual factors. In conclusion, students’ limited grammatical proficiency and language development processes influence the occurrence of errors in recount text writing.

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