The background of the study is that The Jakarta Post is one of printed journalisms, of course, it uses written language. In fact, The Jakarta Post has communicative language and English writing. As ELT students, mostly ELT students of IAIN Walisongo have to be able to write English well. They have to be able to transform their knowledge and idea into written language. To make communicative and advanced writing like The Jakarta Post, ELT students do not violence writing aspects one of which is English collocations, especially English grammatical collocations.
The English grammatical collocation is a part of writing aspects which will give essential impact if we understand it inasmuch as essential material in writing English language. Non-native English writers usually ignore it because of their limitation of knowing it.
The writer in this study identifies the kinds of English grammatical collocation as used by The Jakarta Post to get contributions to the writing course, especially at English department in Tarbiyah faculty at IAIN Walisongo. The writing work which is published is a good source to get new knowledge as the adding knowledge in writing course
The objectives of this study are to identify kinds of English grammatical collocation found in The Jakarta Post, to identify purposes of using each grammatical collocation based on grammatical rules, to identify the contributions of this study to writing course.
Qualitative research gives priority to analyze data. In this research, the researcher analyzes the words, sentences, and phrases of The Jakarta Post editorials issued on November 2010. Then, he analyzes more to get the contributions of the result of identifying English grammatical collocations in The Jakarta Post editorials issued on November 2010 to the writing course.
The data are taken from The Jakarta Post editorials issued on November 2010 and other supporting data related to the object study by reading inasmuch as it is kinds of printed journalism presented in written language.
After comprehending and analyzing The Jakarta Post editorials on November 2010, the researcher concludes as follow; English grammatical collocation is used to convey as close to the original language of English as possible, without violence grammar and meaning. The Jakarta Post used them in many types. So, the English grammatical collocations are found in The Jakarta Post editorials