A Study on Tense Errors in the Compositions of Secondary Students in Brunei

This study examines the errors in tenses made by 34 secondary students Brunei who were asked to write a short story based on picture composition, with focus testing Krashen's Natural Order Hypothesis (NOH) L2 acquisition. The objective of is test theory NOH that irregular past tense acquired before regular through analysis verbs. collected data analyzed four steps error analysis: identification, description, explanation, and evaluation. findings suggest for verbs such as "go," "is," "eat," "buy" most commonly found errors, mainly due inappropriate or incorrect markings. Contrary hypothesis, suggests are not necessarily tense, possibly large number learners need know. Thus, article concludes provides useful information language pedagogy emphasizes importance considering learners' L1 individual differences