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    Error analysis on the use of the simple past tense and the simple present tense in writing essays among EFL students
    (university of Oum- El- Bouaghi, 2017) Mafaz, Hamza; Chaira, Farid
    The aim of this research is to describe the students' errors and their causes in using simple present tense and simple past tense. This research was conducted to 20 students (master1) at Larbi Ben Mhidi University. We used a quantitative descriptive method that includes collecting a sample of students' written productions, and analyzing and interpreting the data. For collecting the data, the students were assigned a written task. The result of the research showed that the highest frequency of errors was in simple past tense. We classified the types of error into miss -formation, omission, and addition. Among those three types, the most frequent error was miss-formation, whereas the lowest frequency of errors took place in the present tense.