Students Errors in Analyzing Sentence by Using Functional Grammar on the Fifth Semester Students at STAIN Zawiyah Cot Kala Langsa

Functional grammar is one of theory that comes from Modern grammar. Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday pioneered functional grammar. He define that language is based on its function. The research was about the students errors in analyzing sentence by using functional grammar. Students often made errors in learning foreign language. Error is a fault which is made by the learner and he or she is unable to make correction. This study was carried out in STAIN Zawiyah Cot Kala Langsa. This study was quantitative descriptive. The population was the fifth semester of English Departement students.