Abstract:
The study aimed to investigate university student’s errors in English tenses, in their written
production. The researcher used the descriptive analytical method and the Statistical Program
for Data Analysis. Results of the study indicated that university students who were chosen for
this study, we found to be facing a real problem, when writing English tenses. This problem
affected their performance. The study showed also that the greatest numbers of errors were
found to be due to omission of verbs and verbs to be. Moreover, the results revealed that the
reason behind the student’s errors was a linguistic cause related to the interference of first
language, and the target language. The researcher recommended that further research should
be carried out, in the areas of tenses, as the data of the analysis indicated that.
