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Nurfadillah Sasmita, NIM. 19301104046, entitled "ERROR ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE FEATURES IN STUDENTS’ NARRATIVE TEXT AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF UIN MAHMUD YUNUS BATUSANGKAR" Department of Tarbiyah English Tadris Study Program, State Islamic University (UIN) Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. The problem in this study is that there are errors found in the language features of narrative texts made by second semester students majoring in English Department of UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. The purpose of this research is to analyze the language features errors found in narrative texts made by students in the 2022/2023 academic year. The research method used is content analysis. The documents analyzed in this study were 16 documents for the final exam for writing for narrative courses. The research instrument in this study used a documentation checklist table. In this study, 4 types of errors in writing narrative text were analyzed using the theory of surface strategy taxonomy by Dulay (1982). The results of the study indicate that there are 3 types of errors found in student writing namely, error in writing past tense, error in writing noun & pronoun, error in writing adverb, and error in writing conjunctions. In the error in writing past tense found omission of verb, misformation of verb, and misordering of verb. In the error in writing noun & pronoun found error in omission of nouns, omission of pronoun, and misformation of noun. In the error of writing adverb found error in addition. And the last is error in writing conjunctions, found misformation of conjunctions, misformation of conjunctions, and addition of conjunctions.