The Present Tense Usage in Speaking Skill: An Analysis of Students' Short Speech Texts

The result of this paper is based on the data taken from Triskanedi (2007).  The study result showed that 80% of students made mistakes in the use of simple present tense, which was the highest compared to the other two tenses, namely simple past and simple future tense.  Due to these interesting fi...

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Main Author: Hafni Hafsah
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Published: Universitas Lancang Kuning 2020-12-01
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Online Access:https://journal.unilak.ac.id/index.php/UTAMAX/article/view/5575
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description The result of this paper is based on the data taken from Triskanedi (2007).  The study result showed that 80% of students made mistakes in the use of simple present tense, which was the highest compared to the other two tenses, namely simple past and simple future tense.  Due to these interesting findings, the writer intended to carry out further analysis by using the data of the research to find out the kinds of errors produced by the students focusing on simple present tense usage in the short speech texts. The analysis of the data uses a specific type of errors, i.e., omission, addition, missed formation and missed ordering/improper ordering in accordance to taxonomy strategy.  The result shows the percentage of the omission of 'be and s/es' is 41.08%.  While the addition of 'be and s/es' is 6,21%, and missed formation is 51,94%, and improper ordering is only 0,77%.  The omission and addition seem related to the use of 'be' before an adjective or nominal sentence and's' in subject-verb agreement.  In addition, the study also found few other errors in using of article 'the', verb inflexion 'ed', and of auxiliary in small numbers. These seems contributed to the students' errors production despite the fact that simple present tense considered as the easiest one to formulate compared to others,  another thing that needs to underlie from this study is the understanding of English grammar seems necessary to avoid the same errors in the future
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spelling doaj.art-1ddbce48db29486b9c0c0da50bdb306a2022-12-21T20:03:17ZengUniversitas Lancang KuningUtamax2685-05402685-42522020-12-012312713210.31849/utamax.v2i3.55755575The Present Tense Usage in Speaking Skill: An Analysis of Students' Short Speech TextsHafni Hafsah0Amik Tri Dharma, Pekanbaru. IndonesiaThe result of this paper is based on the data taken from Triskanedi (2007).  The study result showed that 80% of students made mistakes in the use of simple present tense, which was the highest compared to the other two tenses, namely simple past and simple future tense.  Due to these interesting findings, the writer intended to carry out further analysis by using the data of the research to find out the kinds of errors produced by the students focusing on simple present tense usage in the short speech texts. The analysis of the data uses a specific type of errors, i.e., omission, addition, missed formation and missed ordering/improper ordering in accordance to taxonomy strategy.  The result shows the percentage of the omission of 'be and s/es' is 41.08%.  While the addition of 'be and s/es' is 6,21%, and missed formation is 51,94%, and improper ordering is only 0,77%.  The omission and addition seem related to the use of 'be' before an adjective or nominal sentence and's' in subject-verb agreement.  In addition, the study also found few other errors in using of article 'the', verb inflexion 'ed', and of auxiliary in small numbers. These seems contributed to the students' errors production despite the fact that simple present tense considered as the easiest one to formulate compared to others,  another thing that needs to underlie from this study is the understanding of English grammar seems necessary to avoid the same errors in the futurehttps://journal.unilak.ac.id/index.php/UTAMAX/article/view/5575error analysissimple present tensespeakingspeech texts
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The Present Tense Usage in Speaking Skill: An Analysis of Students' Short Speech Texts
Utamax
error analysis
simple present tense
speaking
speech texts
title The Present Tense Usage in Speaking Skill: An Analysis of Students' Short Speech Texts
title_full The Present Tense Usage in Speaking Skill: An Analysis of Students' Short Speech Texts
title_fullStr The Present Tense Usage in Speaking Skill: An Analysis of Students' Short Speech Texts
title_full_unstemmed The Present Tense Usage in Speaking Skill: An Analysis of Students' Short Speech Texts
title_short The Present Tense Usage in Speaking Skill: An Analysis of Students' Short Speech Texts
title_sort present tense usage in speaking skill an analysis of students short speech texts
topic error analysis
simple present tense
speaking
speech texts
url https://journal.unilak.ac.id/index.php/UTAMAX/article/view/5575
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