Students' recount essays: the generic structure and errors in using the Simple Past Tense

Remeeus, Eunice Debora (2018) Students' recount essays: the generic structure and errors in using the Simple Past Tense. Undergraduate thesis, Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya.

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Abstract

This thesis is aimed in exploring recount essays written by EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students in English Department in East Java. Writing recount essays in this study was the part of the writing syllabus in the english department two main questions that lead to this explaination are (1) To what extent did the students apply the generic structure of recount text in their essay? (2) What types of error are found in the use of simple past tense in recount text? The data were taken from the assignment given to the students of 2017 batch at that time the students were in the 2nd semester. A total number of 14 essays were collected. The data were analyzed by (1) exploring the the generic structure: introduction which include thesis statement, body/sequence of events, conclusion/re-orientation. (2) the error in using the simple past tense using 4 types of error: omission, addition, misformation and misordering. The results for the generic structure are 14.29% (2 essays) errors in introduction including 57% (8 essays) thesis statement that do not exist, 21.43% (3 essays) errors in sequence of event, 57% (8 essays) errors in re-orientation. As for errors in the simple past tense, the results are: 84.55% (116 errors) in misformation, 9.56% (13 errors) in addition, 5.15% (7 errors) in omission and 0.74% (1 error) in misordering

Item Type:	Thesis (Undergraduate)
Department:	["eprint_fieldopt_department_Faculty of Teacher Training and Education" not defined]
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Errors, past tense, generic structure, essay
Subjects:	English Education
Divisions:	Faculty of Teacher Training and Education > English Education Study Program
Depositing User:	Users 6218 not found.
Date Deposited:	16 Jan 2019 08:39
Last Modified:	16 Jan 2019 08:39
URI:	http://repository.ukwms.ac.id/id/eprint/16556

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