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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelNowadays, English is considered as second language in many countries.
Therefore, almost all people learn English in order to be able to communicate with
others. There are many different ways in learning English, like learning English at
school and also English centre. Although they have already learned English for
long time, but they still tend to make errors in grammar, in speaking and written
language. Thus, the writer focuses on English grammar regarding that English as
foreign language in Indonesia. She tries to find out the types of grammatical errors
in English compositions and also the most often error occurs. In analyzing and
classifying the errors, the writer uses two main theories, which are Linguistic
Category Taxonomy and Surface Strategy Taxonomy that proposed by Burt and
Kiparsky (1972). The data are taken from the first draft of fifteen writing
composition written by 11th grade students of EF English Course. The writer
analyzes each composition to find the errors as the data of this research. The
results of the analysis are in Linguistic Category Taxonomy, the highest
percentage is gained by Syntactic Errors. While in Surface Strategy Taxonomy,
Misformation type has the highest percentage. From these findings, the writer
may suggest that the students still have difficulties in applying the English
grammar correctly in writing composition. From the analysis that the writer has
conducted, students who are in high-level of studying English, do not always
show a good mastery of English grammar.