Error analysis is an important area of second and foreign language learning.
Translation is mastery in transferring written message from one language into
written message of another language. This research aimed to describe the types of
error based on surface strategy taxonomy by English department students’ final
assignment. This research used the descriptive qualitative method to identify one or
a few variables that intended to use in this final assignment. The data were taken
from 10 English education students of STKIP PGRI Sidoarjo in third semester. The
research found error result in the form percentage were 32 or 20,25% error found
in omission, 117 or 74% errors found in addition, 6 or 3,79% errors found in
misformation, 3 or 1,96% errors in misordering. In conclusion, error analysis helped
to know the students’ ability in understanding language learning, especially in
translating noun phrase.