The Overview of Lecturers’ Writing Skills in the Academic Context

Abstract

Language politics spirited by the nuances of language preservation is reflected in Indonesia education milieu. The realization of the language preservation attempt includes the stipulation of Indonesia language as the language of education bring about an obligation to use the language as a tool of communication in educational environment include in students' examination. Therefore, lecturers and students should ideally master the use of standard language to be implemented in academic. This research is to highlight lecturers' writing skill. This study aims to describe language errors in the Final Examination test items at University level. These test items are the example of lecturer writing skills output. The research method used was qualitative research design with a descriptive approach. The 170 items of samples were taken by using purposive techniques. Errors were identified in 140 items (82.35%), consisting of 21 types of errors. A number of these errors are classified into 4 types i.e. errors in the aspects of grammar rules (47.37%), semantics (21.05%), syntax (17.22%), and morphology (14.35%). The dominated errors appeared in the grammatical rule aspect. This may be due to the lack of activities to improve language competence for lecturers. This description can be used as a basis for the policy makers to organize programs to improve lecturer academic language competence domain.