scholarly journals GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN WRITING A FINAL PAPER WRITTEN BY THE EIGHTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF STATE INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC STUDIES WALISONGO SEMARANG

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dias Andris Susanto ◽  
Rahmi Widyaningsih

The objectives of the study are 1) To find out the errors made by the students in using grammatical in writing a final paper by students of English Department of State Institute of Islamic Studies. 2) To find out the ways to eliminate the errors made by students of English Department of State Institute of Islamic Studies. The population of the research was the eighth semester students of English Department of State Institute of Islamic Studies. The number of the sample was 12 students’ writing. In taking the sample, the writers used random sampling. The writer took 20% from each class. The number of the sample was 12 students. From the data analysis, the result showed that The students produced 93 errors of 12 students’ writing which could be grouped into 7 categories of errors, they are errors in production of verb group, errors in agreement between subject and verb, errors in the use of article, errors in use of preposition, errors in pluralization, errors in use of pronoun, and errors in the use of conjunction. In the research findings, the number of errors in production of verb group is 43  errors , the number of errors in agreement between subject and verb is 14 errors,  the errors in the use of article is 6 errors, the errors  in the use of preposition is 8  errors, the errors  in pluralization or 19 errors, the errors  in the use of pronoun is only 3, and there is no or 0 error  in conjunction. It is also found that the source of the errors is the students’ grammar mastery. It can be said that the students’ grammar mastery is still low, so that they have difficulties in arranging the sentences. After knowing the research findings, the writers would like to give some suggestions to the students and the English teacher. The teacher should emphasize the students that their target language has different structure from their native language. Beside that, the teacher should motivate the students to learn grammar well, so that they can master production of verb group, agreement between subject and verb, the use of pronoun, and the other elements of grammar well. The last is it will be better for the teacher to give their students more practice in using it.

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-99
Author(s):  
Arono Arono ◽  
Nadrah Nadrah

Nowdays, there are many translation problems although software application to assist translation are available. The objectives of this research were to identify types of error in translation, students’ difficulties in translating text, and factors which influence students’ error in translating in English department of State Institute for Islamic Studies Bengkulu. This research  used descriptive quantitative method. The results of this research showed that students’ difficulties in translating English text, were elliptical errors (67.29%), idioms (87.5%), and textual meaning (73.54).  The difficulties of students in translating were  lack of vocabulary (87,50%), difficult translating Islamic texts (75,00%), literary works (66,66%), and grammatical issues (62,50%). Then, the factors affected students’ error in translation were ignorance of ellipsis; unable to identify ellipsis, idiom, and lexical meaning; lack of strategy in translating ellipsis,  idiom, and lexical meaning; translating words per word; most students lack a strong background on the content of the text. It was concluded that the students got three types of error in transalation, four points difficulties in translation, and six factors which influence the students’ error in translation.Keywords: Translation, difficulties, and English text


2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Bawono ◽  
Milatunnikmah Finisia Rahajeng Oktaviani

The purpose of this research is to analyze the understanding, product, and level of religiosity towards students’ decision of being costumer of Islamic bank. This is a quantitative research. The object of this research is students of State Institute for Islamic Studies of Salatiga. The writer took 100 students as sample of this research. The method used to collect the data is questionnaire. The data is analyzed using test of reliability, validity, statistic and classical assumption. The research findings showed that the product of sharia bank has significant and positive influence. It occurred because the product offered by sharia bank is innovative. The variable of understanding about sharia bank and level of religiosity towards students’ decision of being costume of sharia bank has positive influence but insignificant


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Faizal Risdianto

This descriptive qualitative study focuses on the description of the English consonants systems spoken by speakers of Sundanese backgrounds. This implies that such speakers of particular regional backgrounds speak unique and ideosyncratic native languages. This study will provide a description on the consonants production of English as Foreign Language (EFL) speakers with Sundanese native language in an experimental phonetic method to the students of Islamic Education Department of State Institute for Islamic Studies Salatiga. In this study, the writer have two objectives: (1) to know the English consonants systems of EFL Sundanese speakers in Islamic Education Department of State Institute for Islamic Studies Salatiga?  and (2) to know the most frequent errors on pronouncing English consonants produced by EFL Sundanese speakers. From the result of the analysis, it can be seen  that the EFL Sundanese students made 262 errors. It can also been seen that the greatest errors made by the EFL Sundanese students are mispronouncing the minimal pairs of /f/ and /v/, /s/ and /Ө/ and /ð/ and /z/.   The misuse of the sound “p” instead of “b” is common error for Sundanese since there is not distinction between the sound “f”, “v” dan “p” in sundanese phonological system. 


Author(s):  
Fenty Andriani

This study investigates how the “Fab Four” strategy implemented to teach the less-skilled readers in State Institute of Islamic Studies of Ponorogo.  The design of this study is qualitative. Twenty-seven English department students of the third semester are the subjects of the study. The Fab Four strategy is applied by having the lecturer model four comprehension strategies (summarizing, questioning, predicting, and clarifying) through guided group discussions. Using this strategy, improvements have been noted in students reading comprehension. The result of this study indicates that the “Fab Four” is a great strategy to teach the less-skilled comprehenders as they are trained to determine important ideas from a reading text while discussing vocabulary, developing ideas and questions, and summarizing information.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertaria Sohnata Hutauruk

<p>Deixis is a technical term for one of the most basic things we do with utterance. When we ask someone, “come here!” We are using a context in the utterance, such as who is speaking to whom, what relation they have, the time or place of speaking, the gesture of the speaker and what status the interaction participants have.  Conncerning to the background of the research, there are two questions raised in this research they are: (1)  What deictic expressions found on EFL ’Written Essay Grade III At English Department At FKIP UHN Pematangsiantar, (2) What are the possible interpretation appeared from the deictic expressions found n EFL ’Written Essay Grade III At English Department At FKIP UHN Pematangsiantar. The researcher used some theories related with deixis such as Yule (1995, p. 9), Levinson (1983, p. 55), Lyon (1983, p. 275), and James (1983, p. 63). This research is conducted using a descriptive qualitative research.There are 70 students (academic year 2015) taking Professional Development for English Teacher subject at English Department at FKIP UHN Pematangsiantar. The researcher asked the students to perform and tell their expectations after being an English teacher in the future. After doing the analysis from the whole data of the research, the writer found the research findings:  there are some types of deixis in the students’ writing. Person deixis is used in the students’ writing because the writer shows their thinking and their understanding. In the person deixis is used in the text, first person deixis is most dominant that the researcher found in the text. It is because of the writer tells their willing to be a teacher in the future. As a whole, after the data have been analyzed by the researcher, there are some types of deixis in the students’ writing. Person deixis is used in the students’ writing because the writer shows their thinking and their understanding. In the person deixis is used in the text, first person deixis is most dominant that the researcher found in the text. It is because the writers tell their willingness to be teachers in the future.<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>deixis, written essay, stylistic analysis, deictic expressions</p>


Author(s):  
Muhammad Edi Kurnanto

This research was motivated by preliminary research findings which show the level of academic procrastination among the students of Islamic Religious Education Department (PAI) of the Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training (FTIK) of the State Institute of Islamic Studies (IAIN) Pontianak at 71.88% which is in the high category, even at 8.75% which is in the very high class and the findings of several studies which stated that SFBC effectively overcomes various psychological problems . The research aims to prove the effectiveness of the Treatment Model of Academic Procrastination based on FSBC to reduce the behavior of academic procrastination among students who are writing their undergraduate thesis. In practice, this research used the Research and Development (R&D) approach and the model effectiveness testing, which was is conducted with One Group Pretest-Posttest Experimental Design. The data were collected using a questionnaire and analyzed using percentages and t-test. The results showed that the outcomes of the pretest-posttest average score decreased by 36.533 (from 231.666 to 195.133). Furthermore, the SFBC Model t-test showed a significance value of 0.00 (less than the alpha value of 0.05). Thus, the SFBC is sufficient to reduce the behavior of academic procrastination among the students of the Department of Islamic Religious Education (PAI) of the State Institute of Islamic Studies (IAIN) Pontianak.


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Nadiah Ma’mun

<p>This paper makes a study of grammatical error on paragraph writings of English department students. The students were asked to write the paragraph of writing as their final assignment for paragraph based writing Class. The errors found in the students’ compositions are then classified based on the surface strategy taxonomy on errors of omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. Based on the result of  the research findings whole have been analyzed and the discussions which have been presented, the writer generally concluded that there are four kinds of errors which are omission, addition, misinformation and misordering. The writer found that mostly the students had grammatical error on their writing in mis-information error 43%. They consist of misinformation of adverb, V2, subject-verb agreement, article, modal, passive and word choices. It also can be concluded that most students of intermediate level made Grammatical Error in Omission and Misinformation of their paragraph writing as  Dulaay at.all (1982) said that Omission of to be is common error made by students. Even tough those sentences appear without to be, article or preposition and still have meaning, student must use the Grammar correctly or accurately in writing. Most students made grammatical error in using modal, for example of error in misinformatiom “We  can learning all about English, after modal must be followed by main verb. It mostly happened on students’ writing. The most common types of  errors made  b y  students  are misinformation with  the  number  of  errors  is  15  or  43% and o m i s s i o n  with the number of error is 11 or 31%. The type of errors with the lowest frequency is misordering errors (9%). They consist of misordering of noun phrase and misordering of adverb. These errors seem to be caused by interlingual and intralingual interference.</p>


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nida Mufidah

ABSTRACTThe teaching of grammar is frequently uninteresting so most of students are reluctant to learn this subject. Inviting them to learn the grammar by incorporating the use of technology may become a new way to attract their attention. In the present research, the writer conducted a research to compare the impact of grammar instructions on two classes, which used two different techniques to teach grammar: conventional method and video-making activities (VMA). There were 51 students of English Department at State Institute for Islamic Studies who participated in the research. The data were collected by using a test to measure their grammar mastery and a questionnaire to understand their respond toward the method. The result showed that the students who were taught by using the VMA had no better grammar mastery compared to those who were taught using the conventional method. However, the result of questionnaire yielded that most of the students agreed that the VMA was fun and interesting. This activity, according to them, also promoted creativity and technology literacy.Keywords: Video-Making Activities (VMA), Experimental Study, Grammar Mastery,


INFERENSI ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 415
Author(s):  
Abdul Aziz Nugraha Pratama

This study aims to determine the effect of each variable spirituality, intellect, and professionalism of the lecturers performance STAIN Salatiga. The population of this study are all tenured State Institute of Islamic Studies (STAIN) Salatiga as many as 107 people. The sampling technique used in this study using simple random sampling and 65 were taken as respondents. With quantitative methods and analysis techniques that use moderated regression analysis (MRA), it can be concluded that (1) spirituality is partially not significantly affect the performance of the faculty; (2) the partial intellect does not significantly affect the performance of the faculty; (3) professionalism partially positive and significant effect on the performance of the lecturer. (4) spirituality, intellect and professionalism of lecturers jointly affect the performance of the lecturer. The study also found that the majority of respondents aged very productive, but they are staying at very far away from the campus.


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