Udayana Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, p-ISSN: 2549-6956, e-ISSN: 2621-9107 | 58 DOI: https://doi.org/10.24843/UJoSSH.2020.v04.i02.p03 Analysis Of Error Using Simple Past Tense on Recount Text Class VIII B Students of Smp Pelita Ngabang in Academic Year 2019/2020 Landak District Nopinawati 1 Tuminah 2 Yustina Selong 3 Noor Faridha 4 1. English Language Education Department, Pamane Talino Teaching College Nopinawati93@gmail.com mona.condro@gmail.com yustinaselong7@gmail.com 4. English Language Education Department, Universitas Mochammad Sroedji Jember Noorfaridha26@gmail.com Abstract This research aims at investigating the errors using simple past tense that is often done by students in the activity of writing sentences in simple past tense on the recount text of class VIII B of junior high school PELITA Ngabang in academic year 2019/2020 Landak Regency. The study uses a qualitative research design. The research was carried out at junior high school PELITA Ngabang on November 22nd, 2019. The research subjects were VIII B amount of 20 students. After analyzing the errors of the 20 past form in the recount texts that were finished by 20 students there were 73 errors. Finally, the authors concluded that the past form errors in the recount text were the types of errors omissions, 19, 17%, type of errors addition 26, 02%, types of errors misformation 27, 39%, types of errors misordering 27, 39%. Keywords: error analysis, simple past tense, recount text. I. INTRODUCTION English is an international language that is used to communicate both verbally and in writing, to master English well, it must master four basic skills that must be mastered, namely: writing skills, reading skills, speaking skills, and listening skills. When students carry out English learning often found various errors both writing (reading), reading (reading), speaking (speaking), as well as in listening or listening (listening) made by students. Errors in the use or use of foreign languages are called errors. These errors Often occur in people who use languages that are not native speakers of that language. Many errors are caused due to a lack of knowledge and understanding of foreign languages used as the target language. When students learn to write English, they will be confronted with tense and grammar. These two things cannot be separated from learning English writing skills. In English, there are 16 tenses known. Simple past tense is a tense pattern in English that is used for events that occurred in the past. When writing recount text, students need a good simple past tense foundation because this simple past tense will be applied and used when a student writes the recount text. In simple past tense sentences there are changes in verbs that are used to explain that an event occurred in the past. If students cannot use tenses properly and correctly, students will make the wrong sentences. Many students find errors in the use of tenses because students lack the mastering of tenses, especially the difference between regular verbs and irregular verbs. Regular verb uses the second verb (verb II) and irregular verb uses auxiliary verbs "was" and "were", as well as time information, among others (yesterday, one day, once upon a time, etc.). Therefore, error analysis has an important role to know what types of mistakes are most often done by students, to find out the causes of errors and how students learn from their mistakes. 1. Error Analysis a.Interference in Error Analysis Language errors are a form of process to find errors in the use of language forms. The understanding of error analysis presented by Mubasyira (2017, p. 71) language error analysis is a