A STUDY ON THE ABILITY TO USE SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE BY THE FIRST GRADE STUDENTS OF ENSINO BÁSICO CENTRAL PADRE MANUEL LUIS MALIANA IN THE SCHOOL YEAR 2017

Abstract

This study was conducted in order to answer the following questions :(1) Are the first-grade students of Ensino Básico Central Padre Manuel Luis Maliana in the school year 2017 able to use the simple present tense? (2). What is the students’ ability level in using simple present tense? The main objectives of this study are: (1) To find out whether or the first-grade students of Ensino Básico Central Padre Manuel Luis Maliana in the school year 2017 able to use the simple present tense. (2) To know the ability level of students in using simple present tense. The writer chooses class A which consisting of 30 students. The instrument that the writer used for gathering the data was a test. The test consisted of (40) test items, they are divided into two types of essay test, namely: 25 test items were multiple choice and 15 test items changed the sentence from affirmative to negative and interrogative sentence. The result of the data analysis shows that: (1). The first-grade students of Ensino Básico Central Padre Manuel Luis Maliana in the school year 2017 able to use the simple present tense. (2) The level ability of the first-grade students of Ensino Básico Central Padre Manuel Luis Maliana in the school year 2017 in using simple present tense is in “very good level” with the total percentage is 99, 98 %.