The Capitalization Errors Made by The Sixth Semester Students of English Education Department in Summarizing Articles at IAIN Antasari Banjarmasin in Academic Year 2016/2017

Novy Bimarestu. 2017. The Capitalization Errors Made by The Sixth Semester Students of English Education Department in Summarizing Articles at IAIN Antasari Banjarmasin in Academic Year 2016/2017, Thesis. English Education Department, The Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training. Advisors: (I) Drs. H. Ahdi Makmur, M.Ag., Ph.D, (II) Hj. Noor Maulidiyah, MA.\ud Keywords: capitalization, error, summarizing, article, sixth semester students of English Education Department.\ud \ud The problem statements of this research arewhat are capitalization errors made by the sixth semester studentsof English Education Department in summarizing articles? and what is the most common capitalization error made by the sixth semester students of English Education Department in summarizing articles?.\ud The subject is thirty students of the sixth semester who has been selected randomly. The object is the capitalization errors and the most common capitalization error made by the sixth semester students in summarizing articles. The writer uses documentary techniques. After thedata arecollected, the data are analyzed based on theories and explained descriptively.\ud The result shows that there are nine types of capitalization errors made by the sixth semester students of English Education Department in summarizing articles. Those are the first word in a sentence including the first word of a direct quotation, abbreviations and acronyms formed from the first letters of words, proper noun for names of people and their titles, proper noun for names of specific groups of people (nationalities, races, and ethnic groups), languages, and religions, proper noun for names of specific places on a map, proper noun for names of specific organizations (government agencies, businesses, schools, clubs, and teams), proper noun for first, last, and all important words in the titles of books, magazines, newspapers, etc, wrong capitalization (the letter should not be written in capital letter but it is written in capital letter) and habit in writing F and I letters in capital letter.Then, the most common capitalization error made by the sixth semester students in summarizing articles is the first word in a sentence including the first word of a direct quotation, this is 16 from 62 errors