Siti Mawaddatul Aslamiyah. 2017. The Analysis on Grammatical Errors in
Writing Paraphrase Made by Seventh Semester Students at English
Department of UIN Antasari Academic Year 2017/2018. Thesis.
English Education Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers
Training. Advisors: (I) Drs. H. Ahdi Makmur, M.Ag., Ph.D (II)
Rahmila Murtiana, S.S., M.A
Keywords: Grammatical Error, Writing, Paraphrase.
Writing is an important skill in English language learning. In writing, the
students usually make many grammatical errors such as in writing paraphrase.
Therefore, the writer was interested to know the grammatical errors in writing
paraphrase made by seventh semester students at English Department of UIN
Antasari academic year 2017/ 2018.
This research was conductedwith two research questions. Theyare: what
arethe grammatical errors in writing paraphrase made by seventh semester at
English Department of UIN Antasari academic year 2017/ 2018,
andwhatisthemostcommon grammatical errors in writing paraphrase made by
seventh semester at English Department ofUINAntasari academic year 2017/
2018.
Subject of thisresearch is the seventh semester of English Department
with population was 132 students and sample was 40 students as subject or 30%
from population. The researcher useddescriptivequalitative and quantitative
methodin this research.Written testanddocumentaryare usedastheinstruments
forcollectingthedata. After the data was gathered, then the data was analyzed by
descriptive qualitatively and quantitatively.
The result of the research indicated that students made grammatical errors
in sentence pattern, tenses, noun, and pronoun. While, the most common
grammatical errorswere insentence pattern, with percentage(34.27 %). Other, wre
errors in tense (20.28 %), errors in noun (30.07%), and errors in pronoun
(15.38%). The total number of errors were 143 errors. It is divided into 49 errors
for sentence Pattern, 29 errors for tenses, 43 errors for noun, and 22 errors for
pronoun.