ABSTRACT

RUWET RUSIYONO: The Spelling Mistakes, Syntax, and Manuscript

Perception of Chinese Mini Project students in the Academic Year of 2014/2015
at Art and Language Faculty of Yogyakarta State University. Thesis. Yogyakarta:
Graduate School, Yogyakarta State University, 2017.

This study aimned to describe the mistakes of Indonesian language used in

the spelling, syntax and perception to Indonesian manuscript of Chinese Mini
Project students in the academic year of 2014/2015 at Art and Language Faculty
of Yogyakarta State University. This study applied the qualitative descriptive.
The research subject was 13 manuscripts of Chinese mini project students
at Art and Language Faculty of Yogyakarta State University. The data was
collected by the documentation technique. The data analysis technique was
content analysis technique which were (1) unitizing, (2) sampling, (3)
recording/coding, (4) reducing data, (5) inferring, and (6) narrating.
The results of the research are described as follows. First, there were some
mistakes in the spelling, (1) including 1162 or 2.54% mistakes of letter use, (2)
122 or 2.04% writing mistakes, (3) 57 or 0.16% mistakes of punctuation use, and
(4) 36 or 0.53% applied mistakes. The sum of spelling mistakes were 1337 or
5.26% mistakes. Second, the mistakes of syntax were described as follows. (1)
There were 103 or 34.58% subject mistakes, (2) 17 or 5.61% verb mistakes, (3) 8
or 3.01% object mistakes, (4) 1 or 0.30% note mistakes and there are 4 or 1.59%
complement mistakes. The sum of syntax mistakes were 133 or 45.47% mistakes.
Third, Chinese students’ perception to Indonesia is described as follows : 11
persception, three dominant of which (1) Chinese stereotype to Indonesia, (2)
misperception to Indonesian culture, (3) the unstable policy of Indonesian
government in the economic, social, politic and education fields.

Keywords: mistakes analysis, spelling, syntax, perception, mini project, Tionghoa

students, BIPA