Error Analysis in English Abstracts of Theses and Dissertations of Post Graduate Program of Universities in Makassar

MUNAWIR, MUNAWIR (2014) Error Analysis in English Abstracts of Theses and Dissertations of Post Graduate Program of Universities in Makassar. S1 thesis, Pascasarjana.

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ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to find out the kinds of translation error, the sources of translation error, the dominant kind and source of error, and to find out the format of abstract of theses and dissertations. This research used descriptive method. In getting the data, this research applied purposive sampling technique and the data of this research was taken secretly. The subject of this research was 61 abstracts of theses and dissertation taken from various universities in Makassar and analyzed by using error analysis technique. The result of the research showed that in the kinds of translation error, the most error made by the students was Omission with 72 errors (43.6%), Deviation with 40 errors (24.2%), Modification with 29 errors (17.5%), Addition with 14 errors (8.4%), and the least was Inversion with 10 errors (6.0%). In the sources of translation error, the most error made by the students was Syntactic with 120 errors (62.1%) Lexical with 42 errors (21.7%), Unclassified with 17 errors (8.8%), and the least was Morphological aspect with 14 errors (7.2%). The comparison of writing format of abstract showed that most students did not write their abstracts in single paragraph and did not put keywords. There were only 3 students wrote keywords in their abstracts and 58 students did not do it, while there were only 3 students wrote their abstracts in single paragraph and 58 students did not do it. It can be concluded that the dominant kind of error was omission of meaning while the dominant source of error was syntactic aspect and from 61 abstracts of theses and dissertation nothing abstract are agreeable with the format of international journal.

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Subjects: PASCASARJANA
PASCASARJANA > BAHASA INGGRIS (S2)
Divisions: PROGRAM PASCASARJANA
Depositing User: UPT PERPUSTAKAAN UNM
Date Deposited: 19 Apr 2018 03:14
Last Modified: 19 Apr 2018 03:14
URI: http://eprints.unm.ac.id/id/eprint/7678

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