Grammatical Problems In Introduction Section Of Thesis Written By English Literature Students

Jurnal KATA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Silvia Utami

<p><em>Introduction section is the first section of the thesis that has an important role which summarizes background information about the topic. The ability to write a clear and concise introduction section of a thesis is indispensable skill to writers; thus it is essential for students to be aware of linguistic aspects of writing. Past literature in writing studies have shown that although many studies have been written about the grammatical errors and mistakes in writing, there is very little research done on grammatical problems in writing introduction section of thesis. This research was a descriptive qualitative research which aimed to analyze grammatical problems found in the introduction section of thesis written by English literature students at STIBA Persada Bunda Pekanbaru. The source of data in this research was documents taken from students’ thesis. The data were collected by using coding sheets. The findings of this research showed that the most common grammatical problems found in introduction section of thesis was incorrect verbs which dominated by tenses confusion and lack of subject and verb agreement. The possible solutions to overcome students’ grammatical problems were using indirect method in teaching grammar and prioritizing grammar structures to teach.</em></p>

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Stefani Dewi Rosaria

<p> </p><p align="center"><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p>Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif yang bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan jenis kesalahan gramatikal yang terdapat pada teks terjemahan (Indonesia-Inggris) para mahasiswa Universitas Semarang. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa dari 366 kalimat yang diteliti terdapat 547 kesalahan gramatikal pada teks abstrak para mahasiswa. Kesalahan terbanyak adalah pada penghilangan kata sandang atau <em>article</em> yaitu sebanyak 189 kesalahan. Ketidaksesuaian antara subjek dan kata kerja menjadi jenis kesalahan kedua yang sering terjadi dan pembentukan kalimat yang tidak lengkap menjadi jenis kesalahan terbanyak ketiga. Berdasarkan temuan tersebut dapat disimpulkan bahwa pemahaman para mahasiswa dalam menerjemahkan teks masih kurang karena mengabaikan struktur kalimat bahasa sasaran yang baik dan benar.</p><p>Kata Kunci: kesalahan gramatikal; abstrak; terjemahan</p><p> </p><p align="center"><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This is a descriptive qualitative research which aims to describe a grammatical error in translated abstract texts (Indonesia-English) written by students of Semarang University. The result showed that there were 366 sentences containing 547 grammatical errors made by the students. The most grammatical errors made by the students are the omission of the article with 189 errors. Following the omission of the article was the subject and verb agreement and the third most errors occurred was the sentence fragment. It can be concluded that the students’ understanding in translating the text is lack and they are ignoring the sentence structure of the target language.</p><p>Keywords: grammatical errors; abstract; translation</p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
David Samuel Latupeirissa ◽  
Anastasia Imelda Sayd

The current paper is descriptive qualitative research which aimed at describing grammatical errors of students’ writing in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Class. Data were gained from documents written by students of State Polytechnic in Kupang City, East Nusa Tenggara- Indonesia. The results have shown that the highest percentage of grammatical errors occurred in using the verb group. It consisted of 65.0 %. Following these errors, students made errors in the use of prepositions (12.8 %). The third errors that were usually made by students were the errors in the use of pronouns. It took 9.8 %. After errors in the use of pronouns, students made errors in pluralization (5.1 %). The next lower frequency of errors made by students were errors in the use of articles. It took 4.3 % of the whole text. Following that, students made errors in the use of conjunctions. The errors occurred at 1.7 %. The last errors made by students were errors in the use of subject-verb agreement. The errors occurred only 1.3 %. The results of the current analysis are hoped to be a reflection of EFL lecturers in Indonesia. Furthermore, EFL lecturers of State Polytechnic Kupang are hoped to focus more on teaching the use of verbs in writing class.


Author(s):  
Angeline Elisabeth Samosir ◽  
Viator Lumban Raja ◽  
Fiber Yun A Ginting

This research is an attempt to find out the types of errors made by the tenth grade students of SMK Grafika Bina Media Medan based on linguistic category, morphology and syntax and the dominant errors in each category. The population of this research is the tenth grade students amounting 56 students of three classes. As many as 30 students are taken as a sample which is randomly taken 10 students from each class. The research employed the descriptive qualitative research analysis. Based on the result of the analysis, there are 117 errors found in the students’ writing advertisement text. In the morphological area, there are errors in article, possessive case, third person singular and comparative so there are 35,90% errors. Meanwhile, in syntax area the writer found noun phrase, verb phrase, noun and verb construction, word order and some transformation, there are 64,10%. in conclusion, the dominant errors made by the tenth grade students of SMK Grafika Bina Media Medan is syntax errors namedly noun phrase.


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 273
Author(s):  
Riyah Sibha Nasution ◽  
Rahmad . Husein ◽  
Anni Holila Pulungan

This study investigates the types of grammatical errors produced by Arabic learners in English. Bilingual program is a condition that the students speak both English and Arabic languages in their daily communication. The researcher used descriptive qualitative research in conducting this study. The data are bilingual students’ utterances consisting of grammatical errors in daily communication. The utterances consisted of words, phrases, clauses and sentences. The prior aim in this research is to describe the types of grammatical errors since there are two kinds of grammatical errors namely morphological errors and syntactical errors.Keywords: Grammatical Error, Bilingualism, English, Arabic language, Speech


Ta dib ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-210
Author(s):  
MURDIYANA MURDIYANA

This study was aimed at finding out: (1) the types of grammatical errors in narrative writing made by eleventh-grade students of one private Islamic senior high school Palembang, South Sumatera, Indonesia and (2) the most frequent type of grammatical errors in narrative writing made by eleventh-grade students of private Islamic senior high school Palembang, South Sumatera, Indonesia. This study was a descriptive qualitative research. The data were collected from narrative writing written by the 32 eleventh grade students. In this study, grammatical items analyzed were covering noun, pronoun, verb, conjunction, adjective, adverb and preposition. In analyzing students’ errors, some procedures of error analysis were applied. They were identification, description, and explanation. The frequencies of errors were calculated in percentages. Based on the result of the analysis, there were 621 grammatical errors found in students’ narrative writing. Errors in using verb became the most frequent type of errors with 308 errors (49.59%), followed by errors in pronoun with 136 errors (21.90%), in adjective with 87 errors (14.00%), in preposition with 61 errors (9.82%), in noun with 13 errors (2.09%), in conjunction with 10 errors (1.61%) and the last errors in adverb with 6 errors (0.96%).


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Mir-atul Aufa ◽  
Hermawati Syarif

This study aimed to analyse the errors on pre-service teachers’ classroom language while having field practice in senior high schools. The analysis was conducted by adapting James (1998) Target Modification Taxonomy. Classroom language including the simple instructions and the questions given by pre-service teachers. The participants of this research are five pre-service teachers from four different schools. This study was descriptive qualitative research. The instrumentation of this research were observation, document and interview. The study analyzed pre-service teachers’ classroom language by categorizing the errors into types followed by the causes of each error. Some problems related to pre-service teachers’ classroom language were also found. The problems found hindered the optimal use of classroom language. The findings of the research showed that there were grammatical and lexical errors occured. The grammatical errors were omission (50%), overinclusion (21.73%), misselection (8.70%) and misplacement (4.34%). Some ellipsis (15.21%) were also detected.  


2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-188
Author(s):  
Yasir Mubarok ◽  
Aruna Heli Nur'aisyah

The purpose of the research is to identify and investigate grammatical errors of the theses which are written by students’ Department of English Literature at one of the State Universities, Jakarta, Indonesia. The research approach is descriptive qualitative with descriptive analysis. There are five theses that are used as data sources. The data sources are the fourth chapter of the thesis that every chapter contains a conclusion and a suggestion. The study uses a non-contrastive approach by Richards to error analysis. Based on data sources, the authors found 84 errors, which can be divided into 17 types of grammatical errors. There are 29.80% of article errors, 11.90% of punctuation errors, 8.30% of unnecessary words, 6% of spelling errors, 8.30% of spacing errors, 4.80% of subject-verb agreement errors, 6% of parallel structure errors, 1.20% of word order errors, 4.80% of plural errors, 1.2% of word choice errors, 1.2% of preposition errors, 3.6% of missing words errors, 4.8% of run-on sentence errors, 4.8% of to infinitive errors, 1.2% of passive voice errors, 1.2% of capitalization errors, and 1.2% of auxiliaries errors. The results indicate that students make common grammatical errors encouraged or influenced by their first language (L1). Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengidentifikasi dan menyelidiki kesalahan tata bahasa dalam skripsi yang ditulis oleh mahasiswa jurusan Sastra Inggris di salah satu Universitas Negeri, di Jakarta, Indonesia. Pendekatan dalam penelitian menggunakan deskriptif kualitatif dengan analisis deskriptif. Ada lima tesis yang digunakan sebagai sumber data. Sumber data tersebut adalah bab keempat dari skripsi tersebut dimana dalam bab ini berisikan kesimpulan dan saran. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan a non-contrastive dari Richards untuk menganalisis kesalahannya. Berdasarkan sumber data, penulis menemukan 84 kesalahan, yang dapat dibagi menjadi 17 jenis kesalahan tata bahasa. Ada 29,80% kesalahan artikel (article), 11,90% kesalahan punctuation (tanda baca), 8,30% dari kata-kata yang tidak perlu (unnecessary words), 6% kesalahan ejaan (spelling errors), 8,30% kesalahan spasi (spacing errors), 4,80% kesalahan subject-verb agreement, 6% kesalahan struktur paralel (parallel structure), 1,20% kesalahan urutan kata (word order), 4,80% kesalahan jamak (plural), 1,2% kesalahan pilihan kata (word choice), 1,2% kesalahan preposisi (preposition), 3,6% dari kesalahan kata yang hilang (missing words), 4,8% dari kesalahan (run-on sentence), 4,8% dari kesalahan infinitif (to infinitive), 1,2% dari kesalahan kalimat pasif (passive voice), 1,2% dari kesalahan kapitalisasi (capitalization), dan 1,2% kesalahan auxiliaries. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa mahasiswa membuat kesalahan tata bahasa umum dipengaruhi oleh bahasa pertama (L1) mereka. كان الغرض من هذه الدراسة هو الكشف عن الأخطاء النحوية في البحث العلمي الذي كتبه طلاب قسم اللغة  الإنجليزية و آدابها في إحدى جامعات الحكومية، بجاكرتا- إندونيسيا. و يستخدم هذا البحث المنهج النوعي الوصفي مع التحليل الوصفي. هناك خمس أطروحات تستخدم كمصادر البيانات. و مصدر البيانات هو الباب الرابع من البحث العلمی الذي يحتوي على استنتاجات واقتراحات. و تستخدم هذه الدراسة مقاربة غير متناقضة من ريتشاردز لتحليل أخطائه. و بناءً على مصدر البيانات، وجد المؤلفون 84 خطأ، والتي يمكن تقسيمها إلى 17 نوعًا من الأخطاء النحوية. و هناك 29.80٪ من أخطاء المقالة، 11.90٪ من علامات الترقيم، 8.30٪ من الكلمات غير الضرورية، 6٪ من الأخطاء الإملائية، 8،30 ٪ أخطاء التباعد، 4.80٪ أخطاء اتفاق الفعل، 6٪ أخطاء بنية متوازية، أخطاء ترتيب الكلمات 1.20٪، أخطاء الجمع 4.80٪ (الجمع)، 1.2٪ من أخطاء اختيار الكلمات، 1.2٪ من أخطاء حروف الجر، 3.6٪ من الكلمات المفقودة، 4.8٪ من جملة الجمل، 4.8٪ من الأخطاء اللانهائية، و 1.2٪ من الأخطاء الصوتية السلبية، و 1.2٪ من أخطاء الكتابة بالأحرف الكبيرة، و 1.2٪ من الأخطاء المساعدة. و تظهر النتائج أن الطلاب الذين يرتكبون أخطاء نحوية شائعة يتأثرون بلغتهم الأولى.(L1)


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-130
Author(s):  
Linda Setiorini

This research analyzes the grammatical errors in spoken English of customer services of Malang Tourist Information Center. The objectives of this research are to determine the types of errors and the cause of errors spoken by the customer services. The data were collected from four customer services by recording their conversation between them and the tourists. The study only focuses on the customer service’s utterances. The design of this research is descriptive qualitative research and the instrument is researcher herself. The finding of this research showed that the most dominant error was error of omission with 44 numbers (44%), followed by error of selection with 38 numbers (35%), error of ordering with 14 numbers (12%), and error of addition with 8 numbers (9%). The research also investigated that the causes of errors spoken by customer services were interlingua and intralingua transfer. Interlingua transfer was considered as the major cause of errors of customer services of Malang Tourist Information Center.   Keywords: grammatical errors, error analysis, utterances


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Endang Haryanto

AbstractTheses and journals are several kinds of writing which contain abstract. Thesis is used in educational area, especially in university, as a requirement in completing an academic degree. As one of the most important thesis part is called abstract. The use of abstract is essential in some scientific works, online research, directory, seminar, and call paper. In IAIN Bengkulu, students are obliged to write an abstract as an integral part of their theses. Because of its importance, abstract must be written using the correct form and following the rule of abstracting.This study used descriptive qualitative research. It describes how the students write an abstract based on the rule. As a result, the researcher found some errors on the students’ abstract in terms of organization, content, and language. In addition, the researcher found many grammatical errors. Students also tended to make mistake related to the standard form of abstract. Thus, the researcher knows that most of students’ abstracts still do not follow the rule of composing their abstract.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 00039
Author(s):  
Setia Rini

<p class="Abstract">Writing is a proficiency which is very difficult and complex. This is&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 1rem;">because the learner needs many aspects to master, such as lexical&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">aspect, grammatical aspect, the ability to present facts and express&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">their thoughts, etc. According to the results of the final review of the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">4th semester students, we found that students have encountered a lot&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">of grammatical errors in the course of writing. As a result, we search&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">for analysis to identify this problem and find solutions. Therefore, the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">problem proposed in this research is: 1) what type of error is often&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">done by students in the course of writing? (2) What is the grammatical&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">error which is found a lot depending on the result type? (3) What are&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">the solutions to solve them? In order to find answers to this problem,</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">we did a descriptive qualitative research with qualitative method by analyzing of the errors. We found&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">that: 1) the dominant type of error is the grammatical error, 2) the most significant type of grammatical&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">error is the error of the adjective. So, in order to solve the problems, students must have a good&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">grammatical skill in the first half; we have to make the students know their grammatical errors even if it’s&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">very simple, give more exercises in the students so that they are used to write correctly</span></p>


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