Students’ Errors in Simple Past Tense on Recount Text at Class IX SMPN 1 Lubukbasung

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10.2991/assehr.k.200819.046How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Students’ Errors, Simple Past Tense, Recount Text

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to describe the kinds of errors made by the students of class IX SMPN 1 Lubuk Basung in using simple past tense in writing a recount text. The design of this research was descriptive qualitative research with the students of grade IX who taught by the same teacher at grade VIII as the population. The instrumentation that used to collect the data in this research was a writing test. The researcher asks the students to write paragraphs based on the topic given. It found that the students had some errors in writing simple past tense on recount text. Based on the data analysis, types of students’ errors were concerning with omission, addition (double marking, regularization, and small addition), misformation, and misordering. The errors made by the students were dealing with using verb be (was/were), past form of be, auxiliary did, article, preposition, and pronoun.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Etty Musfia
AU  - Muhd. Al Hafizh
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/19
TI  - Students’ Errors in Simple Past Tense on Recount Text at Class IX SMPN 1 Lubukbasung
BT  - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA-2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 236
SN  - 2352-5398
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