GRAMMATICAL PROBLEMS IN THE DISCUSSION SECTION OF MASTER THESES

Mentari, Lidya Rona and Wisma, Yunita and Alamsyah, Harahap (2023) GRAMMATICAL PROBLEMS IN THE DISCUSSION SECTION OF MASTER THESES. Masters thesis, Universitas Bengkulu.

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Abstract

The discussion section is one part of the thesis that describes the findings made with the results of previous research by demonstrating deep knowledge of the findings, interpreting the findings, and emphasizing the contribution to the current knowledge. It is also the most challenging part of the thesis. This study aimed to find out the most grammatical problems and causes of grammatical problems in discussing the master thesis written by English education postgraduate program students at Bengkulu University. This study used a mixed method. Most of the grammatical problems were investigated quantitatively, and the causes of grammatical problems were studied qualitatively. The corpus of this study was 30 master theses written by English education postgraduate program students who have graduated in 2021. The findings showed that the most frequent grammatical problems found in the discussion section of the master thesis were incorrect verbs with 65,4% or 121 times, which were dominated by tense confusion and subject-verb agreement which confuse the reader. Further, they also often have lack of the necessary syntactic connections between the verb and the nearest subject. The cause of the grammatical problems found in the discussion section of the thesis was first-language since the first grammar rules still significantly influence writing in foreign languages. The conclusion of this study provides information about the most frequent grammatical problems and possible causes in the master thesis discussion section to increase the writer's awareness about the importance of grammatical writing in the discussion section. Key words: Grammatical Problems, Discussion Section, Writing Thesis, Academic Writing

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