ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENTS’ ENGLISH TENSES ERRORS

At The First Semester of English Students’ Department at Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Lancang Kuning University, the researcher found that the students had a problem in had grammar error in writing. That was why researcher conducted this research that aimed toanalyze the English errors faced by the first semester of English Students Department at Faculty of Teachers Training and Education LancangKuning University.This research was Descriptive Quantitative Research. The participants of the research were 36 students. In collecting the data in this research, the researcher used test and interview as the instrument. The result of data showed that the students had 176 errors in verb tenses, 8 errors in to be, 5 errors in correct sentence and 9 in adverb of time with the percentage were 31,38 % in true or false question and 27,5 % in multiple choice test. In conclusion, The students had a lot of errors in applied verb tense, adverb of time, correct sentence, and to be.


INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background
In order to convey meaning in communication, both in written and oral communication, one needs to fully equipped with sufficient tenses mastery. Well-structured and understandable sentences were the clear sign of a good grammatical competence. There were two terms that are commonly used to describe the inaccuracy in applying English tenses into writing, namely error and mistake.Although English tenses have been taught to the students of English Department since the very beginning of their education, still, English tenses errors can be found in most of their language activities, in this case writing. Basically, the English tenses errors that the students usually made were related to their negligence of basic writing mechanic and grammatical rules. The errors might seemed small and insignificant, but they might have big influences on the quality of writing. So, the researcher was interested in conducting a research entitled "An Analysis of Students' English Tenses Errors Faced by The First Semester of English Students' Department at Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Lancang Kuning University"

Review of Related Literatures
Brown (2000: 7) stated that a search in contemporary dictionaries reveals that learning is the acquiring or getting of knowledge of a subject or a skill by study, experience, or instruction.
According to Gerot and Wignel (1994), grammar as a theory of language, of how language was put together and how it works. In addition, Abbas (2015) states grammar includes the ability to apply correct sentence structure or construction.
According to Larsen and Freeman (2000) that grammar was an important language aspect should be possessed and mastered.
According to Pardiyono (2007), tense was a variation of the change of verb form includes full verb, be and auxiliary that were usually used as predicate in the sentence, which should be appropriated with the kinds of time expression. The words tense stood for a verb form or series of verb form used to express time relation.

METHOD
This research was a Descriptive Quantitative Research. The researcher conducted the research collaboratively with English teacher to find out the problem that occur in English errors in writing. The participants of this research were the students of Faculty of Teachers Training and Education of Lancang Kuning University and the researcher took the first semester students that consists of 36 studentsThere were two kinds of instruments that will be used in this research. They were test and interview. In analyzing the data, its used descriptive analysis technique (percentage). And it also used the formula that purposed by Sudijono:2004

FINDINGS
The true or false questions and multiple choice tests were given to the students that consist of 10 questions of true or false question which focused on simple present tense and present continuous tense. In multiple choice test, there were 20 questions focused on simple present tense, Simple past tense, Present perfect tense and future tense discussed the errors made by the first semester students of English Department of Faculty of Teachers' Training and Education.

Diagram 4.1 Total of Errors Frequency
Based on the diagram 4.1, it can be interpreted that the most common type of errors made by students in using simple present tense, present continuous tense, present perfect tense, future tense and simple past tense is in Verb Tense. It is the high errors in which the students made 176 errors, 8 errors in applied to be, the students made 5 errors in correct sentence and the students also made 9 errors in choosing adverb of time.

CONCLUSION
The students had a lot of errors in applied verb tense, adverb of time, correct sentence, and to be. The researcher founds a few problems that caused of grammar error: Longman.