An Analysis On Grammatical Error In News And Report Writing Of Fourth Semester Students English Language Education Islamic University Of Riau

News and report writing is one of subjects in English department FKIP-UIR. This subject more difficult rather than the other subject. Because it used writing skills which needs well knowledge and hard thinking. When produce words, sentences and paragraphs with a good grammatical. The purpose of this research is to find grammatical error students in news and report writing. This study is a qualitative research. Based on the variable of the study, it is classified as a descriptive research because it only deals with one variable and the researcher focused on the student’s grammatical errors. The population of this research was the fourth semester students of English language education Islamic university of Riau. Total the four semester were 148 students and four classes. The research used a class which are 33 students as the sample of this research. The result of this research showed that fourth semester students at English language education Islamic university of Riau still made some errors from students news and report writing. There are fourth types of error that made by students: omission, addition, misformation, misordering. The dominant type errors made by students are addition that is 26 errors followed misformation that is 16 errors, omission that is 15 errors and misordering that is 3 errors