Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze students' mistakes about using past tense in Narrative texts based on problems that make students feel confused about using past tense in their writing, especially Narrative texts. The research method is descriptive qualitative. The subject of research researchers chose grade 8 (2019/2020) at SMP Pasundan Medan. The results showed that the researcher found four types of errors: omission, additions, misinformation, misordering. Then, the researchers found the highest error made by students was misinformation with a percentage of 53%. This problem is influenced by students feeling confused to understand the simple past because they do not know the meaning and difference between regular verbs and irregular verbs. Therefore, students claim that they rarely practice writing paragraphs.
Highlights
The purpose of this study is to analyze students' mistakes about using past tense in Narrative texts based on problems that make students feel confused about using past tense in their writing, especially Narrative texts
The researchers found the highest error made by students was misinformation with a percentage of 53%. This problem is influenced by students feeling confused to understand the simple past because they do not know the meaning and difference between regular verbs and irregular verbs
Medan Pasundan Middle School still have implement a new system in English to difficulty writing good texts in English and implement global change
Summary
ERROR ANALYSIS ON THE USE OF PAST TENSE IN NARRATIVE TEXT The similarity between research from several experts and in this study is the analysis of errors from the simple past use in writing narrative texts but the researcher focuses on analyzing errors based on the surface structure of the taxonomy by Dulay and Krashen.
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