The Ability Of Students In Using Simple Past Tense And Past Continuous Tense

Abstract

The simple past tense and past continuous tense are the common tenses of past tense that the students still find hard to learn. Thus, the analyst attempted to discover the ability of students in using simple past tense and past continuous tense at English Language Education Study Program of Lambung Mangkurat University who already took Basic Grammar class. This research used descriptive-qualitative method by using test. There were 95 students in the population, and the sample is 32 students who already took Basic Grammar. As the result, the research discovered that the ability of students of Language Education Study Program was in poor category with the mean score was 46. It was suggested that the students learn more about vocabularies of verb II and the structures of past continuous tense.