THE USE OF TENSES IN READING TEXTS “LET’S TALK”
SMP TEXTBOOKS Melisa Arimba Puspita
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Satya Wacana Christian University Abstract
This study is about tenses that are used in reading texts “Let’s Talk” of SMP textbooks. The samples of this study were reading texts. The data were collected from the of SMP textbook grade VII, VIII, and IX. I choose 6 reading texts from each textbooks randomly. To analyze the data, the sentences from each reading texts were labeled or coded,classified and interpreted. This study used descriptive research to describe the grammatical items used in Let’s Talk VIII, Let’s Talk VIII, and Let’s Talk IX. I found that tenses were used in the reading texts of SMP textbook were the simple past, the simple present, the simple future, the present perfect, and the past countinuous. The study also found that the simple past tense was the most frequently used tense in all-reading texts. The percentage of the simple past tense in the Lets Talk VII was 44%, in the Lets Talk VIII was 51% and in the Lets Talk IX was 49%.
