Problems Facing English Language Students at AL- Zaytoonah University of Jordan in Learning Perfect Tenses from their Perspective

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the problems facing foreign language learners at Department of English, and the Department of English and French literature students at Al Zaytoonah University in learning perfect tenses from the viewpoint of students, and also aimed to investigate the effect of year, and GPA on the point of view of students. To achieve the purpose of the study, a questionnaire was distributed among the students.

The study sample consisted of (180) students; (96) males and (84) females from Al Zaytoonah University. Means and standard deviations and t-test were used to analyze the results.

The results showed that there were statistically significant differences in the views of the students on the problems facing them in learning perfect tenses , also showed a statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α ≥ 0,05) in their views due to the gender variable, as there are statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α ≥ 0,05) in their views due to the year variable, and results also showed the existence of clear statistically significant differences in the views of the students on the problems facing them in learning perfect tenses due to the general point average of the students (GPA).

Keywords: Perfect tense, Problems in learning perfect tense, Al Zaytoonah University Students