The Mastery of Present Perfect Continuous Tense of The Students of The English Study Program

Abstract

Mastering a language can be something challenging when it comes to a part of understanding the grammar. English grammar consists of many aspects and tenses have become one of the essential parts of learning the language. Among all tenses learned, present perfect continuous is one of the important tenses to learn yet it is rare to be discussed. This phenomenon has brought a decision to take the tense into research. This paper analyzes the mastery of the Present Perfect Continuous Tense of the second-semester students of English Study Program in University of Widya Dharma Pontianak. The purposes of this research are to know the students’ mastery of the second-semester students and to know the most common mistakes made by the second-semester students in using Present Perfect Continuous Tense. The population of this research is 19 students who take Structure II. The research methodology used in this research is the descriptive method. According to the analysis of the test results, the mean score of the students’ performance on the test is 59.73. This result can be categorized as Poor to Average. However, considering the criteria of evaluation, the result of the mean score calculation (59.73) can be categorized as Average.

 Keywords: Analysis, Mastery, Present Perfect Continuous Tense