GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN THESIS ABSTRACT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA

Abstract

GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN THESIS ABSTRACT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA

Anggi Ridho Habibi1
, Zuindra2
Universitas Harapan Medan

Jl. HM. Joni No.70 C, Teladan Bar., Kec. Medan Kota, Kota Medan, Sumatera Utara, 20216, Indonesia

Email: anggiridhohabibi@gmail.com, zuindraidris@gmail.com

Abstract

This research focused on the grammatical errors found in the undergraduate thesis abstracts of
Industrial Engineering Department Students of Universitas Sumatera Utara. There are three problems
and objectives formulated in this study that focused on finding out the types, process of analyzing, and
the most dominant type of grammatical error occurred in the thesis abstract. This research is a
descriptive qualitative study that examined the thesis abstracts using the steps of error analysis
proposed by Ellis and Barkhuizen (2005). The grammatical errors are classified into the 4 types of
grammatical errors proposed by Dulay, Burt, and Krashen (1982), which are addition, omission,
misformation, and misordering. The results showed that there were 143 errors found from the 24 thesis
abstracts that being sampled. Omission is the most dominant type of grammatical error with 67 errors
(47%), followed by misformation with 35 errors (25%), addition with 29 errors (20%), and misordering
with 12 errors (8%).
Keywords: grammar, types, error, error analysis, abstract