| dc.description.abstract | Many EFL students produce many errors in their writing regarding grammatical
aspect. The previous study focused on grammatical errors for EFL students but in different
places and levels of student’s written text. And the result showed that the students had
difficulties in using English grammar both of written and oral.
This present study aims to analyze the most dominant errors made by the last
semester students of English department of University of Islam Malang on their thesis
especially in the part of discussion.
This study was designed to be descriptive qualitative method. The data were
collected by simple random sampling from some of skripsi discussion made by EFL
students of University of Islam Malang in the last two years 2018 and 2019. The researcher
took from the library of FKIP UNISMA Malang. Then, the researcher analyzed based on
the steps of errors analysis. The steps were identification, classification and description of
errors by using tabulation.
Furthermore, the researcher followed the error analysis procedures to analyze the
data. Moreover, the errors were classified into surface strategy taxonomy theory as
proposed Dulay et al. the result shows that the most dominant errors were misformation 34
(40%) followed by omission 33 (38.83%), misordering 10 (11.77%), and addition 8
(9.42%) so, the total errors from the skripsi discussion were 85 errors. The current study
investigated that the causes of errors were inter-lingual interference.
Based on the result of this study, the researcher found that the students still have
problem with understanding their English grammar rules to their writing process.
Therefore, the researcher suggested for the EFL students to pay attention in the term of
using grammar rule on their written text or oral and be aware to increase their knowledge
about English grammar correctly. For the lectures, the researcher also suggested to pay
more attention to students grammatical errors in their writing. And the last, for the future
researcher, the researcher suggested to conduct the deeper study of grammatical error not
only in the skripsi discussion but also in the whole written English at a higher level of
students. | en_US |
