Grammatical errors in undergraduates’ paper abstracts
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There are many studies analyzing grammatical errors in writing few scientific papers report errors in scientific articles, especially in undergraduate paper abstracts. To fill this empirical gap, this study examined grammatical errors in written English abstracts of academic articles in an undergraduate paper. In particular, try to classify errors according to the surface strategy taxonomy proposed by Dulay, Burt, and Krashen (1982), namely malformation, omission, addition, and disorder. The method used is content analysis. Errors occur in malformed categories such as inconsistency in subject-verb, inconsistency in the use of tenses, no "-s" in plural nouns, and no "-s" in predicates (verbs) using the third singular person called subject. There are several types of errors in the omission category, including missing predicates in articles and sentences. The next grammatical error is in the category of addition, which includes the addition of “-ing” in the verb “to infinitive” and “-s” (plural) in one part of a singular parallel sentence. However, misordering categories is only some of the data analysis. Overall, the most commonly found errors were in the category of misformation. In addition, their errors are caused mainly by mother tongue interference and overgeneralization. The findings of this research are expected to serve as a reference for future scholars when avoiding errors in writing English abstracts for academic articles.
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