ERRORS OF GRAMMATICAL AGREEMENT ON STUDENT RECOUNT WRITING AT SMA SANTO YOSEP AEKKANOPAN

This study aims at analyzing the errors of grammatical agreement on students’ recount writing. It was conducted by using qualitative descriptive. The population of this research was tenth (X) grade students of SMA Swasta Santo Yosep Aekkanopan. The number of samples was taken from one class. It is X-1 which consists of 25 students. The instrument for collecting the data was writing recount text. The result of the study showed that there are so many grammatical agreement errors found on students’ recount writing. The analysis showed that the most common types of grammatical agreement errors made by the students is selection errors (90 or 845%) with 73 cases of subject-verb agreement error and 17 cases of pronoun reference noun agreement. From the analysis was found that the main causes of grammatical agreement errors is strategy of communication and assimilation (31.5%%), Overgeneralization (31%), Interference (26%) and performance error (11.5%)