An analysis of tenses errors on the thesis written by English Educational Department student

Fadilah, Rizka (2023) An analysis of tenses errors on the thesis written by English Educational Department student. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

Educational research especially in English writing is still highly being debated and explored since it is absolutely necessary to improve the quality of the students writing and academic writing in the modern era. Previous researcher have discussed error analysis a lot, like in novels, speeches, videos and texts, but they want the next researcher to research different object. So, this research will use a thesis as an object from Afriani’s thesis entitled The Effect of Synthesizing Strategy to Students’ Reading Comprehension at XI Grade SMA Negeri 1 Panyabungan in 2020. This research was aimed to reveal the types of error based on surface strategy taxonomy, namely omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. This research used descriptive qualitative method in analyzing the data. The data source take from abstract and chapter one from Afriani’s thesis. The data analysis used the following steps: reading all the data, identifying and analysing the sentence, describing the error, and classifying the most dominant tenses error. The result of the research showed that researcher found four types of error in tenses, there are: in simple present tense there was 5 errors, in simple past tense there was 25 errors and in present perfect tense there was 3 errors. Therefore, it is important for the students or second language learners to learn more grammar. Besides, the teacher should also emphasize more in reducing the possibility of the students or second language learners errors by providing effective strategies and materials.

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