Judul Skripsi: An Analysis of Grammatical Error in Thesis Abstract at English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. An Analysis of Grammatical Error in the Dissertation Abstract at the English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. The research aimed to find out the types of grammatical errors and causes of errors made by English department students at Muhammadiyah University of Makassar in the dissertation abstract.
The author found 57 errors in the summary of the thesis in students of the English departments of the Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. And also found that the causes of grammatical errors in thesis abstracts made by English Department students of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar, there were carelessness, first language interference and translation. Husain S. Pd. and Mrs. Rosdiana Salman S.Pd.) and also my husband who give the best support, prayers and sacrifices during their life.
INTRODUCTION
- Background
- Problem Statement
- Research Objective
- Significance of The Research
- Scope of the Research
Abstract is a clarification of the thesis (research), which is usually bound into the thesis immediately after the title page (Oliver, 2004:106). After investigating the problem on the abstract above, the researcher would like to do thesis research on student errors in thesis abstract writing titled "An Analysis Of Grammatical Error In The Thesis Abstract At English Department Of Muhammadiyah University Of Makassar." What types of grammatical errors are found in the thesis abstract of students in the English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar.
What are the causes of grammatical errors in the thesis summary of the students of the Department of English, Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. The types of grammatical errors are described in the summary of the thesis of the students of the English department of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. To describe the causes of grammatical errors in the thesis abstract made by the students of the English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar.
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Previous Related Findings
Omissions, additions, distortions and misordering could be found in the summaries; the most common errors were malformation (19 errors), while the rarest were misordering (1 error). In her research, Lanteng (2014) analyzes the types of errors found in the summaries of Faculty of Arts graduates. Her research result shows that there are three types of errors: seven omission errors, five misinformation errors and two distortion errors.
After finding several studies on error analysis above, researcher can conclude that there are similarities and differences. The similarity is all collected grammatical errors, although Rifqi took it from midterm and final test writings, Iamsiu assigned students to write a specific topic first, Hourani brought English essay writings together to be examined, and Aperocho studied the argumentative essays. But the similarity does not apply to this research because the thesis abstract will be the primary analyzed object; the only one that counts as the same object is from Hidayati, who also observed the treatise's abstract.
Some Pertinent Ideas
Meanwhile, it is a mistake to deviate the students when they perform an exercise or talk about something. Some of the changed structures are removing necessary articles and adding unnecessary ones to a sentence. This section deals with the misunderstanding listeners and readers get from what speakers say or what writers write.
Day and Gastel (2012:53) gave a simple illustration for a summary that should be considered a miniature of the paper. This is a precis of the thesis (research) that is usually bound into the thesis immediately after the title page. Therefore, from several definitions above, it can be deduced that a summary is a text written at the end as the short summary, but it will be found to start reading the content of the paper.
It is widely known that the abstract is an important part in the scientific writing, which realizes the information of the whole writing. Because of it, a researcher should write the research result in an abstract way. Paltridge and Starfield provided the typical scope of the abstract with its many questions pertaining to the content of the abstract itself.
From the purposes we mentioned above, it is concluded that abstracts aim to summarize the paper to give the readers the idea, Paltridge and Starfield gave the typical purpose of the abstract with some questions related to the content of the abstract itself. To begin, here is the typical structure in a review of the study by Paltridge and Starfield; the purpose of the study; the reason for the study; Some background comments may be inserted, but readers are primarily interested in the particular piece of research or results.
The abstract writing is started with a new paragraph, and each paragraph is written with five characters from the margin to the left of the text. On the other hand, Crystal also gave his opinion that grammar is absolutely central to the study of language, in any of its dialects, standard, all contrasts of meaning or otherwise. Therefore, to write an abstract as one of the academic writings, it should be formal writing and in the third person. 2010:36) defined this element as how easy it is for the reader to understand the writing.
Conceptual Framework
RESEARCH METHOD
- Research Design
- Research Focus
- Source of Data
- Instrument of The Research
- Technique of Collecting Data
- Technique of Data Analysis
The researcher classified and analyzed the errors found in theses summaries made by the English Education Department of Muhammadiyah University, Makassar. This chapter describes the types and classification of errors found in the summaries of students of the English Departments of the University of Muhammadiyah, Makassar. From the above data analysis, the researcher got the frequency of errors that are often found in extracts.
Moreover, the most grammatical errors found in the abstracts of students of English departments of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar were malformation errors with 34 items or 67%. Based on the table, the researcher found that the causes of grammatical error in the thesis abstract made by the students of English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar were carelessness, first language interference and translation. The researcher took five sentences as sample errors to explain the causes of grammatical error.
In the previous chapter, the purpose of the research was to know the grammatical errors and the causes of errors in the thesis summary made by students of the English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. The researcher analyzed and classified the errors found in the dissertation abstract based on the surface taxonomy categories into the type of omission, addition, deformity, and misordering error. The types of grammatical errors in the thesis summary made by students of English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar.
The causes of errors in dissertation abstract made by English department students at Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. Based on the results, the researcher found the reasons in the thesis abstract that there was carelessness, it was often closely related to a lack of motivation. The researcher analyzed and classified the errors found in the thesis abstract based on Surface Taxonomy Categories into the types of omission, addition, misformation and misordering errors.
Secondly, the researcher found the causes of grammatical errors in the thesis summary made by students of the English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar: carelessness, interference in the first language and translation.
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
Findings
The research data was taken from the thesis summaries of the English Department Students of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar from the year 2014/2015 from even and odd semester. Here were the grammatical errors found in 15 thesis summaries made by students of the English Education Department of the Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. The most common errors in this research were in the category of malformation error dealing with the tenses in English grammar.
In this research, the author found the pattern that most of the mistakes were made: subject and verb agreement. In general, the content of abstracts made by English department students of Muhammadyah University of Makassar could be clearly understood and did not confuse the reader as to what they want to deliver.
Discussions
The second question of this research was about the causes in the thesis summary in English department students. And translation was also one of the causes of the error, it happened because the student translated his first language sentence into the target language word for word. This cause of error was closely related to the earlier cause of first language interference error.
When student or someone tries to translate the first language into the target language, the first language will mix the target language in their translation. Omission was characterized by the absence of item that should appear in a correct form of utterance. This type of error usually occurs when the learner has already acquired few target language basics.
The lectures are also suggested to facilitate the students to improve their English, at least look at the students' English version of abstracts. Finally, the future researchers were recommended to explore more about research findings related to this problem. Moreover, the researcher expects that this result of study can inspire future researchers to do other research related to grammatical error analysis to enrich the existing studies.
Bern, CH: Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Inc. Variations of qualitative research. United States of America. University of Southern California. English translation errors in abstracts of educational administration students at the Graduate School of Medan State University.
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
Conclusions
Suggestions
For the lectures, the researcher expected them to provide information and perform more in the teaching and learning process, especially in drafting an abstract. Lectures may compile abstract writing rules specifically for faculty, so that all abstracts will have the same proper arrangement or format. Pit Corder(eds.) Techniques in Applied Linguistics (The Edinburgh Course in Applied Linguistics: 3), London: Oxford University Press (Language and Language Learning), p. 1987) Evaluation and Selection of EFL Teaching Materials.
