CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of Study
In daily communication practice, error cannot be avoided. It sometimes deviates from a rule existing in a language, there are some errors in speaking.
They happen without being known by the speaker due to many factors. Error maybe caused by the differences between the first language and the second
language. Such a contrastive analysis hypothesis occurs as the structure in the first language is different from that in the second language; this produces the errors
reflecting the structure of the first language. Such errors are stated as the result from the influence of the
learners’ first language habits on second language production Dulay et. al, 1982: 97.
Individual’s understanding of one language can have an impact on another language. Negative transference or known as interference occurs when the
understanding of a language implicates the understanding of another language, whereas positive transference occurs when the knowledge of one language can
develop the skills in the second language. Indonesian learners who study English as a foreign language get some problems and all of those difficulties result in
errors. It is firmly stated that in the performance of learning, learners cannot learn without committing errors Dulay et al, 1982: 138.
In learning vocabularies, learners might have able to master a number of words and also put them in certain categories, such as: noun, verb, adjective, or
adverb. In this study, one of those categorical classifications, namely, a verb was analyzed. The verb is an important class of word expressing state specifies an
object is in a certain state or condition, e.g. the wood is dry, process specifies an object undergoes a change of state or condition, e.g. the wood dried, action
expresses an activity, something which someone does, e.g. Michael ran, action process expresses an action and process, e.g. Michael dried the wood Chafe,
1970:98. There were also writing about verb from previous papers and most of them
only used primary data by using questionnaire technique and the questions were multiple
– choice test with four option. Meanwhile, in this study the writer used written language test and spoken language test. In written language test, the
students were required to write paragraphs with the selected topics and it was done in order to know the ability of students in writing and using the appropriate
tenses whether it is in present, past, perfect tense, etc. In the spoken language test, the writer did the interview directly to the students in order to know the ability of
students in using the tenses well by speaking their English. Thus, this study described some errors were produced by the students, when they were in writing
and speaking. This study is concerned with the errors in verb forms made by the students
of SMAN 1 Kuta Selatan. Sometimes, some errors are produced by the students when they are in learning process of or in practicing their English. Most of them
are errors in English verb forms. In English, normally a verb has five forms: The Base, the
–s form, the Past, the –ing Participle, and the –ed Participle Quirk, 1973:27.
1.2 Problems of the Study
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