AN ANALYSIS GRAMMATICAL ERROR IN WRITING ABSTRACT OF THESIS AT ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF SULTAN AJI MUHAMMAD IDRIS SAMARINDA IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023

Abstract

Taupik Hidayat, 2023. An Analysis of Grammatical Errors in Writing Abstract of Thesis at English Education Department of State Islamic University of Sultan Aji Muhammad Idris Samarinda in Academic Year 2022/2023. Thesis, English Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, State Islamic University of Sultan Aji Muhammad Idris Samarinda. Supervised by Mr. Dr. Bahrani, M.Pd. as the First Advisor, and Mrs. Dra. Siti Hadijah, M.Pd. as the Second Advisor.

The focus of this study is on the grammatical errors that English Department students at UINSI Samarinda made in writing the thesis abstract. This study aims to investigate the types of grammatical errors made by English Department students at UINSI Samarinda in writing an abstract for a thesis that was based on Betty Schrampfer Azar's book.

This study was qualitative research. Data analysis was descriptive qualitative. The information was derived from theses abstracts by students in the UINSI Samarinda English Department. Utilizing Miles, Huberman, and Saldana's documentary methodology, the data were examined. Data compression, data display, and drawing or reviewing conclusions were the three phases.

The results of the research showed that 55 sentences from the 10 theses contained grammatical errors. These errors involved word choices, verb tenses, word forms, and articles. Word form errors were 3, verb tense errors were 12, word choice errors were 11, and article errors were 29 based on these flaws. Some grammatical errors were made in the abstracts, particularly when utilizing the singular and plural forms incorrectly and improperly arranging the simple past tense. The researcher anticipated that the students would study more resources in order to master the language. It is crucial to help students see their mistakes once they have written anything.