This research was intended to analyze grammatical errors in recount text made by the ninth grade students and analyze the factors that cause these errors. This research was conducted at one of junior high school in Indonesia named SMPK 1 Harapan. The data was taken from the ninth grade students’ recount texts with the theme unforgettable experience. It was collected through the linguistics field technique. Next, it was analyzed by the surface strategy taxonomic theory that proposed by Dulay et al. This theory classified errors into omissions, additions, misformations, and misorderings. The sources of errors were analyzed by the interlanguage and intralingual errors proposed by Richard. Based on the result of the data analysis, it was found that there are 248 errors. The errors consist of 18 omissions, 34 misformations, 155 additions, and 1 misorderings. The sources of errors are interlanguage and intralingual factors.
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