<![CDATA[This study aimed to identify, classify, and determine the frequency of omission and misselection (misinformation) errors in recount texts written by eighth-grade students of MTsN 11 Agam. The study employed a qualitative content analysis approach supported by quantitative frequency calculations. The participants were selected through purposive sampling and consisted of 14 eighth-grade students whose recount texts followed the generic structure of orientation, events, and re-orientation but contained grammatical errors. Data were collected through document analysis and analyzed using the Surface Strategy Taxonomy proposed by Dulay et al. (1982), supported by James’ (1998) error analysis framework. The analysis focused on two categories: omission and misselection (misinformation). Omission included the omission of was/were, main verbs, articles, suffixes -s/-es, and -ed. Misselection (misinformation) included incorrect pronoun use, prepositions, verb forms, and Subject-Verb Agreement. The findings based on the final data from Rater 3 identified 9 omission errors and 53 misselection (misinformation) errors, resulting in 62 validated errors. Omission errors were most frequently found in the -ed suffix (4 cases; 44.45%), followed by was/were and -es (2 cases each; 22.22%), and articles (1 case; 11.11%); no omission of main verbs was identified. Misselection errors were dominated by incorrect verb forms (31 cases; 58.49%), followed by prepositions (12; 22.64%), Subject-Verb Agreement (6; 11.32%), and pronouns (4; 7.55%). The findings indicate difficulties with verb forms, past-tense markers, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, and agreement. These errors reflect systematic interlanguage development and L1 interference, as Indonesian does not use morphological tense inflections in the same way as English. The findings are expected to help teachers develop more focused grammar instruction and writing-based remedial activities.
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