THE INCORRECT USE OF TENSES IN STUDENTS’ JOB TRAINING REPORT

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The research aimed at identifying the types of errors, the frequency of types of errors, the sources of errors in using simple present tense and simple past tense in students’ job training report. The research was qualitative research. The qualitative method used was content analysis. The data of the research were the errors of simple present tense and simple past tense usage in students ‘job training report. While the source of data was students’ job training report from grade 12 Animation SMK Negeri 8 Kota Bekasi.   The data analysis used the theory from Ellis that there were several steps in analyzing errors which include collecting data samples, identifying data, describing errors, explaining errors and evaluating error (Ellis, 1994). The result showed that the errors in using simple present tense was lower than in using simple past tense. In applying simple present tense, there were twenty-five (34%) errors of auxiliary (be) omission, eighteen (24%) errors of verbs (s/es) omission and thirty-one (41%) errors of verb misinformation. In the usage of simple past tense, there were thirty (33%) errors of auxiliary (be) omission, fifteen (16%) errors of verb (ed/d) omission and forty-seven (51%) errors of verb misinformation. In both cases, the causes were due to intralingual and interlingual errors.