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Grammatical error analysis in English education department alumni’s thesis academic year 2011 at IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya
A thesis is the students’ final requirement for a bachelor’s degree in the English education department at IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya. It is considered as an academic writing because it is a scientific work. As a scientific work, a thesis should be written grammatically. In fact, based on the researcher’s preliminary study, theses of the English education department alumni academic year 2011 contain grammatical errors whereas the writers are at advanced level. Therefore, it is very important and interesting to analyze the students’ writing skill, especially in grammatical aspect.rnThis research is conducted to find out two objectives: 1) to describe the types of grammatical errors in the English education department alumni’s theses academic year 2011 at IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya; 2) to find out the most common grammatical errors within the theses. The terms of grammatical error types used in this research are compiled from different sources: an overview of common grammatical errors made by US college students, ESL students, and other grammar books. rnThis study is based on descriptive quantitative design. The subject of this study is the students or alumni of the English education department at IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya academic year 2011. The instrument is the researcher himself, but he still needs the other secondary instruments: English Grammar books, Grammatical Error Matrix, Nitro PDF, Microsoft Office Word proofing, and The Ginger Grammar and Spell Checker. The data were theses of the English education department’s alumni. They were collected through a document study. They were obtained by downloading on the Digital Library of State Institute for Islamic Studies Sunan Ampel Surabaya. The total of the data was 10 theses. They were analyzed by using S.P. Corder theory, error analysis. In analyzing grammatical errors, the researcher follows Ellis’s suggestions: collection, identification, classification, explanation, and evaluation of errors.rnThe findings show that: 1) there were 25 types of grammatical errors. 2) The most common grammatical errors are wrong or missing determiner, wrong tense and verb form, subject verb agreement, and idiomatic collocation and word order. Finally, the researcher expects that this study is significant for English learners to ensure the quality of their essay, English teachers/lectures to be guidance to know the students’ progress in acquiring the language, the English department to provide the impetus to make more strict policy towards students’ grammatical errors in the thesis, and for further researchers to be a reference to develop the same study.rn
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