SLA Perfect Tense

The research aims to investigate students’ errors in the present perfect tense and past perfect tense.

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The Arabic learners have more difficulties in using present perfect tense than the past simple tense

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The Indonesian EFL learners seem to have more difficulties in past simple than present perfect tense.

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Arabic learners have the concept of present perfect tense, so they choose to use it instead of the past tense.

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Indonesian EFL learners are significantly affected by the mother tongue in using the target language.

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Indonesian participants wrongly used the present perfect or the participial verb because the students forgot the right form of the verbs.

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There was a mistake due to the wrong present perfect tense because of the students’ lack of understanding of when to use the present perfect verbs.

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In case number 7, 12, and 15, the Indonesian participants could understand the difference between “been” and “gone” very well.

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This study presented the problem of interlingual and intralingual interference (in Arabic and Indonesian contexts).

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The study was limited to a few examples of EFL learners’ speaking using the Present Perfect Tense.

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