Please take a moment to complete this survey below
Library's collection Library's IT development CancelErrors cannot be separated from the process of learning. Studying learners?
errors is significant to give inputs for improvements. This thesis is a study of past
tense errors made by The First Year Students of Petra 5 Senior High School. In
this thesis, the writer observed the types of errors on past tense made by some
students in their fill in tests and also their compositions. The writer wants to know
the types of past tense errors that occurred in the fill in tests and the compositions
and their frequency of occurrence. In order to solve the problems in this thesis, the
writer relied on some theories of error analysis and English grammar rules,
especially about past tenses. The writer used qualitative approach in doing this
study. The subjects of this study are 23 First Year Students of Petra 5 who have
already learned the English past tenses. The writer collected the data by using two
tests. The tests are in the form of fill in test and compositions making. The types
of error that occurred in the fill in tests are tense shifting, wrong verb form,
missing aux be-, missing aux had- and missing verb. The error that most
frequently occurred is tense shifting from past continuous to simple past. The
types of error in the compositions are tense shifting, Wrong verb form, missing
aux be- and missing main verb .The error that most frequently occurred is tense
shifting from simple past to simple present.