Tenses verb tense Diction Word Form

2. The Data Analysis

Based on the table above, the writer will analysis the errors that students made as follow:

a. Tenses verb tense

Verb tense is the verb used to indicate the time at which the action or statement is occurs. Tense is a form taken by a verb to indicate the time at which the action or stated is viewed as occurring. The students did not use the proper tense on their writing. The example of student‟s error in this case is “We taked a rest.” The students generalized regular past tense endings as applicable to all past tense forms. It should be “We took a rest.” Besides that, the students used the simple form or bare verb for the simple past tense. For example is “Last holiday I go to Siliwangi stadium.” It should be “Last holiday I went to Siliwangi stadium. The students‟ errors in using tense because the most students still were interfered by their mother tongue-Indonesian language. Since, in Indonesian language, there is no change of using the verbs whether it is in past, present or future tense or there is no verbal conjugation. They translated the Indonesian language into English directly without considering the tense and auxiliary verb.

b. Diction

Another error that students do is diction. Diction or word choice is choosing the right word in a sentence. Students had some difficulties in using appropriate words in their sentences because not all words can be used in every sentence. Sometimes one word has the same meaning but has different usage in the sentence. For instance is “Last holiday, I went to home my uncle in the Bogor.” It should be “Last holiday, I went to my uncle‟s house in Bogor.” Students still confused to choose the right word in a sentence because of the lack of knowledge or poor vacabularies and its use. Another problem faced by students in this term is some students did not know how to translate some appropriate words from Indonesian language to English.

c. Word Form

In student‟s writing, the writer also found error in word form. In word form, students could not differentiate between noun, verb, adverb, adjective, etc. it can be caused of overgeneralization. For example is “I attend invited from my friend to her home town” It should be “I attended invitation from my friend to her home town.”

d. Usage