An Analysis of the Grammatical Errors in Articles’ Abstract Writings of Indonesian Scholarly Journals

ABSTRACT: This research was aimed to investigate the types and frequency of grammatical errors in articles’ abstract writings of Indonesian Scholarly Journals. This research was categorized into a case study by using a qualitative descriptive approach. The data source of this research was the English abstracts of the journal’s articles on one State College of Islamic Studies in Indonesia published in 2018. In order to analyze the data, the researcher used the theory of Burt and Kipsarsky, namely surface strategy taxonomy to identify and classify the grammatical errors found. The results revealed that (1) the total number of the grammatical errors was 40 errors for four categories of the errors: omission, misformation, addition, and misordering and (2) the biggest percentage of the errors occurred in omission error by the percentage of 50% and the smallest number was misformation error for about 10%. Thus, it could be concluded that the grammatical errors were frequently found in some articles’ abstract writings of Indonesian Scholarly Journals that were written in English regarding to the analysis of surface strategy taxonomy.
KEYWORDS: -Error Analysis, Grammatical Error, Surface Strategy Taxonomy, Articles’ Abstract Writings