The Expression of English Linguistic Time through Simple Past Tense by Indonesian Learners
- DOI
- 10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.255How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- complex sentence; grammatical verb; linguistic time; tense
- Abstract
Based on the concept of language time, all languages in the world are divided into two categories; tense and tenseless language. As a tense language, English is grammatical since verbs change to other forms. However, Indonesian (as a tenseless one) has an ungrammatical linguistic tool, such as using noun, adverbial time, certain lexical forms, affixes, and the inherent meaning of verbs [1]. Comrie says “tense is grammaticalised expression of location in time”. Thus, tense is a linguistic tool which helps people to situate various series of events in time. Indeed, the different tools raise various difficulties for Indonesian learners who learn English since they tend to assume tense as various formulas that must be memorized not as grammaticalized expression of location in time. This research aims to analyze the forms of the written expression of learners past tense through the presence of verbs in their complex sentences and describe the causes of ill formed sentences linguistically as well. The approach of this research is qualitative and structuralism by which the empirical data are presented explanatorily by utilizing morph syntactic theories. Based on the gained data, learners have not been able yet to express past tense correctly; there is no a clear concept of past tense can be viewed through their writing. Hence, teachers need to create a basic breakthrough in teaching it.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Mayang Pipit PY - 2019/06 DA - 2019/06 TI - The Expression of English Linguistic Time through Simple Past Tense by Indonesian Learners BT - Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 202 EP - 205 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.255 DO - 10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.255 ID - Pipit2019/06 ER -