Abstract
Making errors is an unavoidable part of learning a new language, especially for those who do not use that new language as their first medium of communication. Writing in a foreign language can be a considerably tough challenge for EFL learners, one of the problems is regarding the grammatical rules. This present study attempts to discover and analyze the grammatical errors found in EFL students’ final project writing. It employed a descriptive qualitative method using a textual analysis process by adopting the theory of Dulay et al regarding grammatical error analysis. (Dulay et al., 1982) classify grammatical errors into four; omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. Five students’ final projects with a total number of 2884 sentences became the object of this research. The final projects were taken from Politeknik Negeri Bandung (Polban) English Department graduates of 2018 and they were limited to the project of ‘Travel Writing’ only. Travel Writing was chosen due to the fact that it contains more various types of sentences, more complicated sentence structure, and higher level of language modification. The results of this study claim that all types of grammatical errors presented by Dulay et al are found in those five students’ final projects. Misformation is the most frequent error the students made in producing their travel writing products by 74% (380 out of 516 errors) while misordering is the least one by 1% (7 out of 516 errors). Theoretically, the findings can be a base for the next researchers to further analyze the cause of this error production. Meanwhile, practically the results can be used by curriculum makers as a guide to evaluate and develop new curriculum, syllabus, materials, and teaching methods which are more suitable for EFL students in order to communicate effectively and write skillfully. 
 Keywords: error analysis, grammatical error, writing, travel writing
Highlights
English is one of the foreign languages for Indonesians
Since this present study only focuses on grammatical error analysis, it will be further explained in the part
The number and the percentages of errors were calculated to discover the most frequent error made by EFL students in writing their Travel Writing products
Summary
English is one of the foreign languages for Indonesians. Indonesian English learners are considered EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners. In line with this, Sermsook et al (2017)’s study on Thai EFL students found that punctuation, spelling, capitalization, subject-verb agreement, articles, and fragment to be the most often committed errors made by the students They discovered that both interlingual and intralingual interferences along with limited knowledge of English grammar and vocabulary as well as carelessness of the students are the major sources of the errors. An observation prior to this research found that the students still make numerous grammatical errors in their final project products despite having learned English for almost three years in the department. This present study attempts to discover and analyze the grammatical errors found in those students’ final project writing. The final project is limited to ‘Travel Writing’ since it contains more various types of sentences, more complicated sentence structure, and a higher level of language modification
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