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ARIF FURQAN, NIM 1930104012, The thesis entitled “AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ERROR IN TRANSLATING LEGAL DOCUMENT ON TRANSLATION FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES COURSE” English Teaching Department,Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher training, State Islamic University of Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. The problem of this research is there are many Students’ that commited error in translating legal document namely memorandum of understanding in translation for specific purpose subject. The purpose of this research is to describe types of error found in the Students’ translation in translating legal document on translation for specific purposes course at the UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar academic year 2023/2024. This research used a qualitative with content analysis approach. The key instrument of this research is the researcher himself and the main instrument are document. The data are taken from final exam results of the Translation for Specific Purposes course at the UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar in the 2023/2024 academic year. There are 26 documents. The data are analyzed based on theory of error from Dulay. In dulay theory Error is categorized into four namely omission, addition, misformation and misordering. Based on result of data analysis researcher found that there are four category of error found in the Students’ translation in translating legal document on translation for specific purposes course. They are misformation error (66,7%), omission error (21,9%), addition error (10,8%), and misordering error (0,6%).