AN ANALYSIS ON THE GENDER-BASED DIFFERENCE OF THE EIGHT YEAR STUDENTS’ RECOUNT PARAGRAPH WRITING BASED ON THE GRAMMATICAL ERRORS AT SMPN 3 JENGGAWAH JEMBER

Abstract

Abstract : Women and men are indeed different, their differencenot only in the physical appearance butalso occurs in the aspect of linguistics. However, the records on their differences in linguistics aspect have rarely been found. Therefore, an analysis on the gender-based difference of the eight year students’ recount paragraph writing based on the grammatical errors at SMPN 3 Jenggawah was carried out to know their differences. Furthermore, writing is difficult to be mastered by the students. This article is intended todescribe the differences between the eighth year female and male students’ grammatical errors that focused on the students errors in producing simple past tense, errors in the use of prepositions, errors in the use of conjunctions, errors in the use of articles, errors in the use of pronouns, and errors in the use of noun pluralization.A descriptive analysis of students’ errors was done using errors analysis. It was found the results revealed that female students were better in writing recount paragraph than male student. Data were obtained from writing test, interview and documentation.

Key Words : Recount Paragraph Writing, The Grammatical Errors Made by Female Students, The Grammatical Errors Made by Male Students.