AbstractThis research aimed to find outtypes of grammatical errors in writing paragraph based on surface strategy taxonomy made by eleventh grade students of accounting in SMK N 1 Jambi. This research used qualitative method. This research involved 35 students of Accounting IV in SMK N 1 JAMBI academic year 2017/2018 and choosing them by using random sampling technique. The data were collected through test. In this research, the reseacher used classification of errors based on Dulay’s theory. The findings show that students committed error into four types: omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. From the frequency of each error types, misformation was the error which most frequently produced by the students. It took 44,70 % of the total errors. Moreover, 32,94 % errors fell into error of omission and 15,29 % errors fell into misordering; whereas, for addition, it only took 7,05 %.Keywords: Grammatical Error, Writing, Paragraph
Copyrights © 2018