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 somesolutions to reduce the errors. This study employed a qualitative approaches design. The data resource of this studywere twenty undergraduate under graduate theses abstracts and six PNUP D4 Business Administration StudyProgram students in Makassar City who had written their abstracts. The purposive sampling technique was used toselect the documents and the participants of the interview activities. Descriptive analysis was used to calculate thequantitative data and thematic analysis was used to analyze and interpret the qualitative data. The first findings ofthis study revealed that there were128 grammatical errors made by the students. The most dominant errors relatingto 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 topicsentence. The third finding proved that lack of practice, knowledge in writing English abstract, lack of informationfor English abstract writing and following wrong writing examples of their senior under graduate theses wereconsidered the most impactful factor causing the errors. Furthermore, the research recommend to include writingEnglish abstract topic in the English subjects, English abstract writing explanations in the PNUP writing undergraduate theses guidance, to provide good undergraduate theses examples for the students to reduce the causingfactors of the errors .