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those difficulties see appendix 1a no. 5. The teacher gave the students basic explanation about the usage of to be, verb regular and irregular, noun, adjective
and adverb, and also explained about new vocabularies in a sentence. Besides interviewed the teacher, she also interviewed the students which
conducted after they did the test. However, not all students interviewed; she only took ten 10 students for this research. The writer asked the students some
questions about problem in learning simple past tense in writing recount text which consisted of seven 7 questions. The questions were divided into two
categories. The first category talked about their knowledge and problem about the simple past tense see appendix 2a, no. 1-4. The second category talked about
usage of simple past tense in writing recount text see appendix 2a, no. 5-7. From the students‟ interview, the writer found that the most of the students
faced difficulty in determining and using past tense form and irregular verb. This difficulty made the students did an error where some of them tended to use simple
past form for every verbs. Besides the simple past form, they also got difficulty in determining irregular verb, so they applied regular pattern; by adding
–ed, instead of regular pattern. The errors occurred because they did not pay fully attention to
the teacher‟s explanation and because they did not understand in teacher‟s explanation. It was also caused by the teacher never asked them to make a
complete recount text paragraph.