In this paper, nonconforming quasi-Wilson finite element approximation to a class of nonlinear sine-Gordan equations is discussed. Based on the known higher accuracy results of bilinear element and different techniques from the existing literature, it is proved that the inner product △↓（u - Ih^1u）, △↓vh） and the consistency error can be estimated as order O（h^2） in broken H^1 - norm/L^2 - norm when u ∈ H^3（Ω）/H^4（Ω）, where Ih^1u is the bilinear interpolation of u, Vh belongs to the quasi-Wilson finite element space. At the same time, the superclose result with order O（h^2） for semi-discrete scheme under generalized rectangular meshes is derived. Furthermore, a fully-discrete scheme is proposed and the corresponding error estimate of order O（h^2 ＋ τ^2） is obtained for the rectangular partition when u ∈ H^4（Ω）, which is as same as that of the bilinear element with ADI scheme and one order higher than that of the usual analysis on nonconforming finite elements.
