AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON THE USE OF PRESENT PERFECT TENSE IN STUDENTS’ WRITING AT TENTH GRADE OF SMAN 13 BONE

This research aims to analyze the errors and provide description of error analysis
on the use of present perfect tense in students’ writing at tenth grade of SMAN 13
Bone. The objective of the research is to find out the types of error made by
students in using present perfect tense based on surface strategy taxonomy and to
find out the causes of errors classified based on Brown’s theory. In doing the
research, the researcher used qualitative descriptive method and the technique to
collect the data are documentation and interview. The subject of this research
consisted of 10 students of class X MIPA 4.
The result shows that the most common type of error made by students is
misformation error, namely by using incorrect verb forms and incorrect auxiliary
forms. The second is omission error, namely by omitting auxiliary have/has. The
third is addition error, namely by adding the article a, modal auxiliary will, and
the word to. The last is misordering error, namely by putting the auxiliary
have/has in the wrong place. These errors are caused by intralingual transfer
where the students still influenced by partial learning and lack of students’
linguistic knowledge in the target language.