Exploring Lexical Errors of Indonesian EFL Students in Writing Recount Texts

<p><em>The study aimed to examine the EFL students’ lexical errors in writing recount texts. This employed a descriptive qualitative method involving 31 students and uses taxonomy of James’ analyzing The findings revealed that there was total 161 writings. Likewise, it claimed misselection became most frequent error, with 73 errors. next suffix type 35 calque 10 Furthermore, results showed felt difficult select appropriate types texts formal resulted from intralingual error. Thus, recommends teachers teach vocabulary contexts rather than words use English thesaurus or monolingual dictionaries find grammatical content, definitions, examples, spelling, other structures. also online analyzers, drillling, remedy as alternative methods reducing writing.</em></p>