AN ANALYSIS OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS’ PROBLEMS IN UNDERSTANDING PAST PERFECT TENSE AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY
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Abstract
The objective of this research was to know the problems of the third year student at English Department of Bung Hatta University in understanding past perfect tense. The design of this research was descriptive. The population of this research was the third year at English Department students of Bung Hatta University in academic year 2015/2016. The total number of the population member was 46. The data were gathered by grammar test in the form of multiple choice given to the students. The researcher limited his research in understanding past perfect tense in using affirmative, negative and interrogative form. The researcher described the problems found by the students in answering the questions. From the result of the research, the researcher found out 65% students at English Department of Bung Hatta University in academic year 2015/2016 had problem in understanding past perfect tense. The researcher also found 35% students had no problem. Based on the result above the teachers are suggested to give more contextual examples and explanation about past perfect tense. So, the students are going to be familiar with past perfect tense and are going to practice past perfect tense in daily activity too. The students are suggested to do lot of practice to increase understanding past perfect tense. And to the next researcher, it is suggested to study about some factors that cause the students’ problems in understanding past perfect tense such as differentiate between past perfect tense and past tense.
Key words: problem, past perfect tense, affirmative form, negative form, interrogative form