<![CDATA[This study aims to analyze and describe the types of errors in using English articles (a, an, the) made by seventh-grade students in writing descriptive texts. A qualitative approach employing content analysis was adopted for this research. Data were gathered through a student writing test and semi-structured interviews with a purposively selected class of seventh-grade students at MTsN 3 Agam. The collected error data were subsequently categorized based on Dulay, Burt, and Krashen’s Surface Strategy Taxonomy, which divides errors into omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. The findings revealed that students frequently experienced significant difficulties in applying articles correctly, with omission emerging as the most dominant error type, followed by misformation, addition, and misordering. These findings highlight the specific linguistic challenges faced by Indonesian EFL learners in mastering the English article system, which is absent in their native language grammar structure. Consequently, this study offers strategic pedagogical implications for English teachers to design targeted grammar instruction and intervention strategies, particularly in teaching article usage within descriptive text writing context.]]>
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