INTERLINGUAL ERROR FOUND IN STUDENTS’ ENGLISH WRITING RECOUNT TEXT AT THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF MTsS ASY-SYARIF KOTO LAWEH IN 2017/2018
ABSTRACT Ade Pratiwi, Interlingual Error found in Students’ English Writing Recount Text at the Second Grade Students of MTsS Asy-Syarif Koto Laweh in 2017/2018. This research is based on the problems faced by students in learning English when specifically writing a text. Based on the results of the students' training in the initial research, the researcher found a problem in which some students passed on that were influenced by their mother tongue (interlingual) and did not succeed in distinguishing the rules in English writing. That is because students assume that the sentence structure in English is the same as Indonesian, whereas between the two they have different rules. Based on this phenomenon, the researcher conducted a study to find out the language errors of the second grade students inwriting recount text at MTsSAsy-SyarifKotoLaweh 2017/2018. The form of this research is descriptive quantitative. Respondents from this research are second grade students of MTsS Asy-Syarif 2017/2018. The researcher used a total sample consisting of two classes VIII1 and VIII2 totaling 25 people. Meanwhile, the tecnique of collecting data throughh the test. Students are asked to write a text recount entitled “ My Holiday”. The findings indicate that the errors influenced by they mother's language are mostly done on students are transfer of grammatical. There are 24 students with a percentage of 96%, the second highest is the transfer of stylistic and culture there are 16 students with a percentage of 64%, then transfer of phonological.there are 15 students with a percentage of 60%, transfer of morphologic and lexical.that have the same amount, namely 8 people with a 32%percentage.