In this skripsi, the writer will not discuss grammar in general. He will write about tense. Tense is one of discussions of grammar. According to Richard Veit,
“Tense is frequently described as the property that relates to the time a verb’s action is performed”
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. Some grammarians said that English has a great variety of tenses. This is one of reasons why the Indonesian students have difficulties in understanding
tenses, because there are no tenses in Indonesian language. Present perfect tense is one tense that should be mastered by students, but it sometimes makes them
confused. The effect is they cannot use and understand properly the present perfect tense.
Even though the twelfth grade students of Senior High School have learned it, they still find difficulty in learning present perfect tense, especially in using forms
and usages. From that background, he is interested in writing about the problems in
grammar test on Present Perfect Tense to the third year students of SMK YAPIA Pondok Aren.
B. Limitation of the Study
In this skripsi, the writer discusses the students’ difficulty faced by the Senior High School at the third year of SMK YAPIA Pondok Aren in learning grammar. The
writer restricts in present perfect tense, either the forms or the usages.
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Richard Veit, Discovering English Grammar, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986, p. 149
C. Statement of the Problem
Based on the statement above, the writer formulates the problem as follows: what difficulty do the students at SMK YAPIA Pondok Aren get in learning present
perfect tense?
D. Purpose of the Study
The purpose of the study is to find out the difficulties in learning grammar, especially present perfect tense of the students at the third year of SMK YAPIA
Pondok Aren in terms of forms or the usages. In addition, the writer expects that this skripsi will be useful for himself and
other people in general.
E. Method of the Study
In doing the research, the writer uses two kinds of research; field research and library research. In the library research the writer reads some books, papers, internet,
and other references concerning to the topic he discussed. He also visited some
libraries such as UIN library, AMINEF library, and ATMAJAYA library.
In the field research, in analyzing the data he did the observation and gave the
test to the third year students of SMK YAPIA Pondok Aren.
F. Organization of the Writing
Organization of this skripsi is to facilitate the discussion of the problem and help the readers understand what they read. The writer divides this skripsi into four
chapters. Chapter One is introduction, containing background of the study, limitation of
the study, statement of the problem, purpose of the study, method of the study, and organization of the writing.
Chapter Two is theoretical framework. This chapter discusses grammar, definition of grammar and English tense. And then present perfect tense, the meaning
of the present perfect tense, the form of present perfect tense, and the usage of present perfect tense
Chapter Three is research methodology and finding. The research methodology is divided into five items. They are method of the research, objective of
the research, time and place, population and sample, instrument of the research. And then research finding. It is divided into three items. They are data description, data
analysis, and data interpretation. Chapter Four is the last chapter, consisting of conclusion and suggestion. In
this chapter, the writer presents the result of the research about the students’ difficulty in learning present perfect tense and gives some suggestions for the readers.
CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
