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 simple past tense form

25

25/51 = 49.02%

Form

11

33

11/33 = 33.33%

Irregular form

9

9/33 = 27.27%

Pronunciation

3

3/33 = 9.09%

Spelling

7

7/33 = 21.21%

Forming negative sentences

2

2/33 = 6.06%

Forget to use proper form

1

1/33 = 3.03%

2

Students have problems in learning simple past tense usage

28

28/51 = 54.90%

forget to use

7

32

7/32 = 21.88%

Don’t know when/how to use

10

10/32 = 31.25%

Confusion between past and other tenses

12

12/32 = 37.50%

Inconsistency in using

3

3/32 = 9.38%

3

Students have problems in using temporal adverbials or key words

6

6/51 = 11.76%

Not using temporal adverbials or key words

1

7

1/7 = 14.29%

Over-reliance on temporal adverbials or key words

6

6/7 = 85.71%

4

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

8

8/51 = 15.69%

5

Less exposure

1

1/51 = 1.96%

6

Poor foundation

1

1/51 = 1.96%

7

Being careless

2

2/51 = 3.92%

8

Others²

1

1/51 = 1.96%