ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENTS’ ENGLISH TENSES ERRORS

Eko Setiawan,M Fadhly Farhy Abbas

doi:10.31849/elt-lectura.v5i1.762

Abstract

At The First Semester of English Students’ Department at Faculty of Teacher Training andEducation LancangKuning University, the researcher found that the students had a problem inhad grammar error in writing. That was why researcher conducted this research that aimedtoanalyze the English errors faced by the first semester of English Students Department atFaculty of Teachers Training and EducationLancangKuning University.This research wasDescriptive Quantitative Research. The participants of the research were 36 students. Incollecting the data in this research, the researcher used test and interview as the instrument. Theresult of data showed that the students had 176 errors in verb tenses, 8 errors in to be, 5 errors incorrect sentence and 9 in adverb of time with the percentage were 31,38 % in true or falsequestion and 27,5 % in multiple choice test. In conclusion, The students had a lot of errors inapplied verb tense, adverb of time, correct sentence, and to be.

Highlights

1.1 BackgroundIn order to convey meaning in communication, both in written and oral communication, one needs to fully equipped with sufficient tenses mastery
There were two terms that are commonly used to describe the inaccuracy in applying English tenses into writing, namely error and mistake. English tenses have been taught to the students of English Department since the very beginning of their education, still, English tenses errors can be found in most of their language activities, in this case writing
The true or false questions and multiple choice tests were given to the students that consist of 10 questions of true or false question which focused on simple present tense and present continuous tense

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Introduction

1.1 BackgroundIn order to convey meaning in communication, both in written and oral communication, one needs to fully equipped with sufficient tenses mastery. There were two terms that are commonly used to describe the inaccuracy in applying English tenses into writing, namely error and mistake. English tenses have been taught to the students of English Department since the very beginning of their education, still, English tenses errors can be found in most of their language activities, in this case writing. The English tenses errors that the students usually made were related to their negligence of basic writing mechanic and grammatical rules. The errors might seemed small and insignificant, but they might have big influences on the quality of writing. The researcher was interested in conducting a research entitled “An Analysis of Students’ English Tenses Errors Faced by The First Semester of English Students’ Department at Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Lancang Kuning University”.

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