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Grammatical Errors in English Tenses

The document summarizes a study that analyzed errors in learning English grammatical tenses among 31 Matthayom Suksa 4 students at the Demonstration School of KhonKaen University. The study found that past perfect tense had the highest error rate at 87.1%. Past simple tense and present perfect tense also had high error rates. The recommendations were for teachers to focus more on past perfect tense and for students to study tenses more carefully.

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Grammatical Errors in English Tenses

The document summarizes a study that analyzed errors in learning English grammatical tenses among 31 Matthayom Suksa 4 students at the Demonstration School of KhonKaen University. The study found that past perfect tense had the highest error rate at 87.1%. Past simple tense and present perfect tense also had high error rates. The recommendations were for teachers to focus more on past perfect tense and for students to study tenses more carefully.

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A Study of Errors in Learning English Grammatical

Structures on Tenses of MatthayomSuksa 4 Students


of The Demonstration School, KhonKaen University

Nujaree Sukasame, Asst. Prof. Dr. Sathaporn Kantho, Assoc. Prof. Dr.
PenneeNarrot
Objective:

The purpose of this research were to study


grammatical errors in learning English
structures on Tenses of the MatthayomSuksa
four students.
Methodology:

The research group consisted of 31 MattayomSuksa 4


students of the Demonstration School of KhonKaen
University in the second semester of 2012 academic year.
The data were collected by using three kind of instruments
namely; a multiple choices test examining grammatical
errors, a table recording each students errors, and a survey
interviewing those whose errors were found. The students
errors were subsequently analyzed to find the percentage .
Result:

Among all these seven tenses, error on Past Perfect was the most error
that the students produced: it was 87.1%. This indicated that the students
still have not acquired this tense. From each item that elicites, the error of
tense showed that the students did not understand how to use this tense
appropriately so, when they have to use Past Perfect in their answer, they
were unable to do correctly and the numbers of the students who made
errors were 27 students. The second most error was Past Simple. It was
74.2%, the numbers of the students who made errors were 23 students.
The writer considered that they had lack of knowledge about Past
Simple, in which of the numbers of the errors were constant. Mean
while, the third most error that made by the students was Present
Perfect. It was 67.7%. The students who made errors were 21 students.
Past Continuous was in the fourth rank with 54.8% The students were
unable to answer the items correctly were 17 students. Present Simple, it
was the fifth rank. It reached about 48.4% by the students who made errors
were 15 students. And then they went on Future Simple. It was 41.7%. The
number of the students who made errors were 13 students. This indicated
that most of students have known how to use this tense, but some were not.
Finally the last error was Present Continuous. It was 32.3%. This indicated
that students have acquired this quite well and the numbers of the students
who made errors were 10 students.
Recommendations:

The teachers at Demonstration School Faculty of Education


KhonKaen University should focus on past perfect tense
and give a lot of practices in using all kinds of tenses in
class. As for the Matthayom Suksa 4 students, the
researcher suggests that they should learn more about
tenses, they should also be more careful in doing a test,
especially when the tenses are given in a class, and they
pay attention to the time expressions given to minimize the
possibility of making errors on the use of different tense.

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