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This research aims at analyzing the grammatical errors in English abstracts of the undergraduate thesis. This research takes place at two private colleges in Medan city which provide the undergraduate program of management study namely Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Manajemen Sukma Medan and Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Ekonomi Eka Prasetya. There are 20 abstracts taken as the data which are gathered from those colleges. This research engages with a qualitative descriptive approach. The data were analyzed by using the Error Analysis Method by Gass and Selinker. Based on the analysis, the categories of the grammatical errors found are the subject-verb agreement in the use of tense agreement and number agreement, and the use of the article ‘a/an/the’. The research findings show that the tense agreement error is 80, the number agreement error is 10, the omission of article a/an is 4, the omission of article ‘the’ is 153, the addition of article ‘a/an’ is 1, and the addition of article ‘the’ is 8. Hence, there are 300 grammatical errors found. Meanwhile, there are two sources of the grammatical errors; they are inter-language error and intra-language error. Yet, four factors cause grammatical error namely indeterminacy, inconsistency, simplification, and overgeneralization. Based on the findings, the researcher gives constructive pedagogical remediation which is directed to the EFL learners, English language instructor, and the syllabus developer.
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References
Burhanuddin, Ahmad. (2020). Error Analysis of English Sentences Written by Indonesian College Students. Jurnal Lingua Idea. 11. 30-43. 10.20884/1.jli.2020.11.1.2154.
Corder, S.P. (1981). Error Analysis and Interlanguage. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dinamika, S., Hanafiah, R. (2019). Syntactical Error Analysis on Report Text. JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics & Literature). Vol. 4 No. 2. 120-129. ISSN: 2502-7816.
Gass, S.M. and Selinker, L. (2008). Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course. New York: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group.
Kusumawardhani, P. (2017). The Analysis of Errors of Omission in English Narrative Composition Made by EFL Students. Journal of English Language and Education. Vol. 3. No. 2, 84-96. December 2017. ISSN: 2460-7142.
LLDIKTI Wilayah I. (2019). Data Perguruan Tinggi LLDIKTI Wilayah I. Retrieved from https://forlap.ristekdikti.go.id/perguruantinggi/. Accessed on May 2019.
Mackey, A. and Gass, S. M. (2005). Second Language Research: Methodology and Design. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
Merizawati, H. (2019). An Error Analysis in Paper Presentations: A Case Study of Indonesian EFL Learners. Linguists: Journal Of Linguistics and Language Teaching, [S.l.], v. 4, n. 2, p. 71-103, March 2019. ISSN 2656-5765.
Porte, G. K. (2002). Appraising Research in Second Language Learning: A practical approach to critical analysis of quantitative research. John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam.
Richards, J.C, ed. (1972). Error Analysis: Perspective on Second Language Acquisition. New York: Longman.
Singh, Y.K. (2006). Fundamental of Research Mehodology and Statistics. New Age International (P) Ltd., Publishers: New Delhi.
Touchie, H.Y. 1986. Second Language Learning Errors. Their Types, Causes And Treatment. JALT Journal. Volume 8 (No. 1:1986): 75-80.
Yuned, et.al. (2015). Thematic Progressions of the 2015 TEFLIN Article Abstracts in Applied Linguistics. JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics & Literature). Vol. 1 No. 2. 95-115. ISSN: 2502-7816.