198 Eralingua: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Asing dan Sastra Vol. 4, No. 2, August 2020 Sentence Pattern Contrastive Analysis of English and Sigulai Language Saiful Akmal 1 , Fera Busfina Zalha 2 , Rita Hermida 3 , Satria Juni 4 , Lianita Ali Nasution 5 Department of English Language Education Universitas Islam Negeri Ar-Raniry, Indonesia 1,2,3,4,5 Email: saiful.akmal@ar-raniry.ac.id Submitted: 09/06/2020 Revised: 20/06/2020 Accepted: 06/07/2020 E-ISSN : 2579-4574 P-ISSN : 2549-7359 Abstract. This study focuses on analyzing and contrasting sentence pattern differences in both English and Sigulai languages. The study intends to find out the differences in sentence pattern between English and Sigulai language and how the sentence pattern of two languages are different. This current study was conducted by employing the qualitative method by using the contrastive analysis approach. Purposive sampling was used to select samples comprising two native-Simeulue students studying in Banda who speaks Sigulai. The findings show that there were contrast differences in verbal and nominal sentence patterns between English and Sigulai. Moreover, it can be concluded that Sigulai language has a non-configurational sentence pattern as many other Austronesian languages in Aceh and Indonesia in general. Keywords: Sentence Pattern, Contrastive Analysis, English, Sigulai, Simeulue-Aceh https://ojs.unm.ac.id/eralingua This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.