JEELS (Journal of English Education and Linguistics Studies)
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014): JEELS November 2014

Grammatical Errors Found in Articles' Abstracts of Indonesian Scholarly Journals

Indra Wulandari (State Elementary School of Jagung - Pagu Kediri)



Article Info

Publish Date
20 Nov 2014

Abstract

This study is aimed to know the grammatical errors found in the articles’ abstracts of scholarly journals published by one of Indonesian Islamic State Colleges in 2008-2010. The theory used to analyze the data in this case study is Burt and Kiparsky’s theory, namely Surface Strategy Taxonomy. This theory devides errors into errors of omission,errors of addition, errors of misformation and errors of misordering. This results of the study show that there are 172 items of grammatical errors. The most frequent type of grammatical error is omission with the total number is 72 items or 41.9%. The second is errors of misformation which consist of 57 items or 33.1%. The next is errors of addition (27 items or 15.7%) and finally is errors of misordering as the least number of errors with 16 items or 9.3%.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jeels

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

JEELS aims to disseminate the results of research in English Education and Linguistics. The published articles are the findings of research in the field of English language education and linguistics. The scope of research includes: English language teaching and learning English language testing and ...