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1. For the English Teachers
The research helps the English teachers to identify existing problems in the classroom, as well as to find solutions of problems. This research
also can be used as a supplementary learning method for the following semester. The teacher can also train new innovative of teaching learning method by using
drills of tenses.
2. For the Students
By conducting this research the students get more additional learning activities. It can increase the interest of learning English, improve self-learning of
the material, raise the participation in the class and improve grammar fluency on basic tenses. This research helps the students to add the reference of the English
material other than the main source of learning, New Interchange Book. 3.
For the Future Researcher
The future researcher plays a part when training self-experience of teaching learning activity in the class by implementing this research as a reference.
Besides, by using this thesis as the reference the researcher can also fulfil the requirement of Thesis to obtain the Sarjana Pendidikan Degree in English
Language Study Program, Sanata Dharma University.
F. Definition of Terms
1. Drills
Drill is one of the English learning methods that train agility and high skills in understanding the material has been given. Methodology of drill includes
7 pronunciation and memorization of words or sentences or even a specific formula
time after time. Drilling is a technique that has been used in foreign language classrooms
for many years. It was a key feature of audio lingual approaches to language teaching which placed emphasis on repeating structural patterns
through oral practice BBC for English Teacher, 2004. The period of drill can be done in the long term or short term depending on
students’ skills in understanding the basic notions when the drill took place. The principle underlying these drills is that provided a students repeats correct
language forms often enough he will tend to drop his faulty linguistic habits Palmer Mendelssohn, 1973: v.
2. Tenses
Tense is a grammatical structure in English in the form of time differences for the base of the pronunciation and writing in daily life. According to the Oxford
Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 2000: 1393, tense is any of the form of a verb that may be used to show the time of the action or state expressed by the verb: the
pastpresentfuture tense. Tenses are divided into three parts: past, present now, and the future. Each section has a formula and time references differently. Each
section also requires intensive memorization to distinguish events related to the time.
Tenses is a form of a verb used to indicate the time, and sometimes the continuation or completeness, of an action in relation to the time of
speaking from Latin tempus = time. Tense are a method that we used in English to refer to the time – past, present, and future. Many languages use
tenses to talk about time. Other languages have no tenses, but of course they can still talk about time, using different methods. English Club,1997
8 The priority of the research is about five basic tenses: simple past tense,
present: simple present tense, present perfect tense and present continuous tense, and future: present future tense.
3. Drills of Tenses
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