GRAMMATICAL PROBLEMS IN THE RESULT SECTION OF MASTER THESES

The aim of this research was to investigate the grammatical
problems in the result section of master theses and to reveal the possible
causes of grammatical problems in the theses written by the English
education postgraduate program students of the Faculty of Teacher
Training and Education of the University of Bengkulu. This study used a
mixed method. Documentation, a checklist and an interview were the
instruments utilized in this mixed-method research. The grammatical
problems were investigated quantitatively, and the causes of grammatical
problems were studied qualitatively. The corpus of this study were 20
master theses written by English education postgraduate program students
who graduated in 2021. The findings show that the most frequent
grammatical problems found in the result sections of the master theses
were incorrect verbs with 39,8% or 51 times, which were dominated by
subject-verb agreement and tense confusion which confuse the reader. The
cause of the grammatical problems found in the result section of the thesis
was carelessness with 39,16% or 94 times. The conclusion of this study
provides information about the most frequent grammatical problems and
possible causes in the master thesis result section to increase the writer's
awareness about the importance of grammatical writing in the result
section.
Keywords: Grammatical Problems, Result Section, Theses