This research aims at: (1) identifying the types of errors on the use of parallelism made by second semester students of English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Sebelas Maret University, and (2) describing the frequency distribution of errors on the use of parallelism made by the second semester students of the English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty Sebelas Maret University.
The method used in this research is descriptive method. The research was carried out to the second semester students of English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Sebelas Maret University in the academic year 2015/2016 in Mei 2016. From the population, there were 15 students taken as the sample by using simple cluster random sampling. In collecting the data, the writer used a set of a test containing completing, revising and combining sentences. The data are analyzed by using error analysis procedure which consists of: collecting the data, identifying errors from the students’ work, describing and classifying the errors based on the errors types, explaining errors based on their sources, and evaluating errors.
The result of the study shows that the errors made by the students on the use of parallelism based on surface category taxonomy fall into the category of omission error, addition error, misformation error, and misordering error. The writer found 310 total errors consisting of 71 omission errors or 23% of total errors, 156 misformation errors or 50% of total errors, 66 addition errors or 21.5% of total errors, and 17 misordering errors or 5.5% of total errors. Missformation error is the most frequent errors made by the students. It is followed by omission error, addition error, and the last is misordering error.
Keywords: error analysis, surface strategy taxonomy, parallelism