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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelOne of the keys to English skills mastery is the mastery of the English
grammar. Grammar in English is often associated to English tenses for the tenses
deal very much with the form and meaning of English sentences. Therefore, the
writer tries to find out the errors in the application of tense rules. Tense rule is
used primarily to mark the time when the sentences refer to, by using different
forms of verbs. The writer intends to find out the errors in the use of tense rules in
the journals of first writing class students. And then she determines the types of
tenses errors which are often made by the students of first writing class in their
journals. The theories of Dulay, Ellis and Corder are used in this study to clarify
the errors. The theory of error analysis by Ellis is used as the main theory to do
the analysis. The underlying theory of English tenses is taken from Maclin. After
the writer identified all the errors and listed them as the data; she could find the
errors in Simple Present Tense, Present Continuous Tense, Present Perfect Tense,
Present Perfect Continuous Tense, Simple Past Tense, Past Continuous Tense,
Past Perfect Tense, Past Perfect Continuous Tense, Future and Future Time in the
Past from the journals. The writer finds that the most frequent type of error that
the students often made is Haphazard Substitutions type. This means that the
students still make errors in the function of different forms of tenses.