Purwati, Dewi (2021) An Error Analysis of Clause Linkage Markers In Undergraduate Thesis of English Education Department Students At State Institute For Islamic Studies of Metro. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The purposes of this research were to analyze the most error type of clause linkage markers, and to explore the use of clause linkage markers in undergraduate thesis of English Education Department students at State Institute for Islamic Studies of Metro. This research was intended to bring up the use of clause linkage markers. It is because the concept of clause linkage marker is very important in studying the writing skill.

This research was a qualitative research. The type of research was a case study. Data was taken from the primary sources that were twenty undergraduate theses of English Education Department students at State Institute for Islamic Studies of Metro (IAIN), particularly in the part of background of study. In order to collect the data, the researcher used observation and documentation.

The first research result proves that the most error type of clause linkage markers used in undergraduate thesis is temporal marker because the researcher found that 50% of the error type of clause linkage markers. In addition, the second research result points out that the use of clause linkage markers in undergraduate thesis is dominated by the appropriate use of clause linkage markers. It is because there is 78% of the appropriate clause linkage markers used in 20 undergraduate thesis. Meanwhile, if it is examined the appropriate clause linkage markers based on each type of sentence consisting of compound sentence, complex sentence, and compound-complex sentence, it is dominated by complex sentence (53%), while the inappropriate used is dominated by compound-complex sentence ( 64%).

Keywords: undergraduate thesis, clause linkage markers, qualitative research.

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