AN ANAYSIS ON STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN UNDERSTANDING SIMPLE PAST TENSE AND PRESENT PERFECT TENSE

Abstract

Students consider tenses uneasy materials to understand. Many students have difficulties in understanding tenses since there are many similarity both in patterns and functions. In this research, the writer only focuses on Simple Past tense and Present Perfect Tense. The aim of this research is to investigate students’ difficulties in understanding Simple Past Tense and Present Perfect Tense. The research is conducted at FKIP Universitas Pakuan. The writer chooses students of class B from the second semester of English Education Study Program who get score less than B in Structure I and the lecturer of Structure I to be researcher’s respondent. After collecting the data, the writer concludes that students have difficulties in applying adverb of time, the irregular verbs, and the aggrement into simple past tense and present perfect tense.