ANALISIS KESALAHAN PENULISAN ABSRAK BERBAHASA INGGRIS MAHASISWA D4 JURUSAN ADMINISTRASI BISNIS

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the types of errors, the factors causing the errors and to recommend some
solutions to reduce the errors. This study employed a qualitative approaches design. The data resource of this study
were twenty undergraduate under graduate theses abstracts and six PNUP D4 Business Administration Study
Program students in Makassar City who had written their abstracts. The purposive sampling technique was used to
select the documents and the participants of the interview activities. Descriptive analysis was used to calculate the
quantitative data and thematic analysis was used to analyze and interpret the qualitative data. The first findings of
this study revealed that there were128 grammatical errors made by the students. The most dominant errors relating
to the grammatical aspects were the wrong use of prepositions, articles, subject –verb- agreement and redundancy.
The study also discovered 38 non-grammatical errors. They were errors in writing text structure and creating topic
sentence. The third finding proved that lack of practice, knowledge in writing English abstract, lack of information
for English abstract writing and following wrong writing examples of their senior under graduate theses were
considered the most impactful factor causing the errors. Furthermore, the research recommend to include writing
English abstract topic in the English subjects, English abstract writing explanations in the PNUP writing under
graduate theses guidance, to provide good undergraduate theses examples for the students to reduce the causing
factors of the errors .