No.

Students’ problems in USING simple past tense

Sum of teachers

Percentage of teachers

Subcategories

Number of tokens

Total tokens

Percentage

1

Students have problems in learning the form of simple past tense

42/82

51.22%

Regular and irregular forms

29

43

67.44%

Irregular forms

9

20.93%

pronunciation

3

6.98%

be not aware of the presence of verbs

2

4.65%

2

Students have problems in learning the usage of simple past tense

46/82

56.10%

Knowledge of when to use simple past tense

20

52

38.46%

forget to use

14

26.92%

Confusion between past and other tenses

13

25.00%

Inconsistency in using

5

9.62%

3

Students have problems in using temporal adverbials or key words

14/82

17.07%

Not using temporal adverbials or key words

12

14

85.71%

Over-reliance on temporal adverbials or key words

2

14.29%

4

Lack of past tense concept (L1 influence, cultural differences)

7/82

8.54%

5

Students have problems in forming interrogative and negative sentences

5/82

6.10%