Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan dan Sosial
Vol. 4 No. 4 (2026): Januari

Language Errors in TikTok Content Captions

Saragih, Sanju Febrio (Unknown)
Napitupulu, Selviana (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
23 Jan 2025

Abstract

The rapid growth of TikTok as a popular social media platform has significantly influenced written language practices, particularly in caption writing, which tends to be informal and spontaneous. This study aims to identify, classify, and analyze language errors found in TikTok captions created by Indonesian content creators. Employing a descriptive qualitative research design, the data were collected through documentation of publicly accessible TikTok captions and analyzed using qualitative content analysis. The findings reveal that language errors predominantly occur in the forms of redundancy, grammatical errors, spelling errors, and semantic inconsistency. These errors are not categorized as intentional code-switching or stylistic language mixing but rather as violations of standard linguistic norms. Theoretically, this study confirms that the informal nature of social media influences written language use and encourages non-standard forms in digital communication contexts.

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jipsi

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Religion Humanities Economics, Econometrics & Finance Education Environmental Science Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice Mathematics Nursing Public Health Social Sciences Other

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he focus of this JIPSI journal is based on the results of educational research that contributes to the understanding, improvement, development of scientific theories and concepts and their application to education in Indonesia. The scope of education includes educational administration, guidance, ...