Writing Challenges on Students ' Thesis Abstract at English Language Education Study Program Faculty of Letters and Culture Universitas Negeri Gorontalo

The study deals with Writing Challenges in ELESP Students thesis Abstarcts at English Language Education Study Program Faculty of Letters and Culture Universitas Negeri Gorontalo. The objectives of the study are to investigate the types of grammatical errors and to find out the most grammatical errors are occurred in writing abstrat made by English Language Education Study Program. This research used a qualitative research approach and case study research method. The data of this research were 15 thesis asbtracts of under-graduated students published from 2020, 2021 and 2022. The steps of error analysis were collection of errors, the error detection and the error description. The process of the data analysis was elaborated based on Dulay, Burt, & Krashen (1982). The research findings indicated that grammatical errors which committed by under-graduated students were omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. From the types of error, abstracts in academic year 2020 have : 6 omission, 1 addition, 2 misformation, 6 misordering, academic year 2021: 3 omission, 3 misformation and 13 misordering, and abstract 2022 have erorr : 3 omission, 6 misformation and 6 misordering. Therefore, there were 25 misordering errors that were the most common grammatical errors made by the students in writing abstracts.