Abstract
We can find term “Error Analysis” in language. These errors could make misunderstanding of English sentence meaning. Tense is a rule when we want to explain our activities and events in written text. As we are academic students, we must have full understanding about tenses, because if we don’t do it, there is much miscommunication that we got. But students don’t have full understanding about this problem. They assume tense as a big burden. It is a real phenomenon that the researcher found. The goal of this researchwas the students’ progress and every student’s level in understanding tenses. The method of this research used quantitative method. Kinds of errors made by second grade students of Health Information Management in using tenses are omission 50% (omission of simple present tense 50%). The percentage errors of using tenses are simple present 50%, simple past 35% and simple future tense 15%. Students should pay attention seriously in learning tenses because tenses are part of grammar.
Highlights
Students don’t have full understanding about this problem. They assume tense as a big burden
2.3 Error and Error Analysis Harse, Woodword and Burke (2000) eloquently express the view that errors are inherent is the process of language learning itself: “the openness of language leads to both creativity and error
The researcher designed a questionnaire for the Health Information Management students who were more diligent students than the other
Summary
The most important means of communication for human being is language because it is used to express ideas, senses, thoughts, information and etc. There are many books, mass media, reference books and other forms of communication written in English It makes Indonesia government decided English as a formal subject. We can find term “Error Analysis” in language These errors could be very precious sources for teaching; the research that used the students’ errors in writing as resources to teach students. Researcher is an English lecturer, she always finds the fact that students always make errors in using tenses. The researcher wants to found out both students’ progress and level in understanding tenses so that the English teaching and learning process run well. Internal reasoning people use language to describe, or model, facts and situation From this perspective, understanding the meaning of an utterance is being able to match it with the situation it describes.
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