Open AccessAn Error Analysis in the Use of Simple Past Tense on Students’ Final Work at IAIN Kudus
Author(s) -
Anisah Setyaningrum
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of english teaching and learning issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2685-4473
DOI - 10.21043/jetli.v1i2.5087
Subject(s) - misinformation , verb , simple (philosophy) , computer science , simple past , identification (biology) , error analysis , past tense , mathematics education , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , psychology , linguistics , mathematics , epistemology , philosophy , botany , computer security , biology
This research aims at identifying, classifying and analyzing the kinds of errors on the use of simple past tense in students’ final work. It is expected to help the lecturers in identifying the students’ most common error in language learning processes, especially in learning simple past tense. Several stages are done in this qualitative research, they are: preparation, data collection, and analyzing the data. As the preparation, the writer try to read some theories and previous studies related to this research. In analyzing the data, Ellis’ theory is used in this research. The techniques in analyzing the data are: identification of error, classification, description, and correction. The result of this research shows that there are four kinds of errors made by students, they are omission 13%, addition 5%,misinformation 31%,and misordering 5%. They mostly make errors in the misinformation of irregular past verb in using The Simple Past Tense.