THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING MATCHING GAME TOWARD STUDENTS’ GRAMMAR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EIGHTH GRADE AT MTS MANBA’UL ‘ULUM BUNTARAN REJOTANGAN TULUNGAGUNG

PRIMITA AMIJAYANTI, 2813123124 (2016) THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING MATCHING GAME TOWARD STUDENTS’ GRAMMAR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EIGHTH GRADE AT MTS MANBA’UL ‘ULUM BUNTARAN REJOTANGAN TULUNGAGUNG. [ Skripsi ]

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ABSTRACT Amijayanti, Primita. Student Registered Number. 2813123124. 2016. The Effectiveness of Using Matching Game toward Students’ Grammar Achievement of the Eighth Grade at MTs Manba’ul ‘Ulum Buntaran Rejotangan Tulungagung. Thesis. English Education Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) Tulungagung. Advisor: Hj. Ida Isnawati, M.Pd. Keywords: Effectiveness, matching game, simple past tense One of strategies used in teaching grammar is game. Game is one of ways to modify the bored lesson like grammar especially in simple past tense when the student can to change verb I to verb II (past participle). Sometimes, the student was bored and lazy at class that made difficultness to memory it. Enjoy the lesson is the important thing to make student understand material easily. One ways is game. Wright (2006: 1) states that game is an activity which is entertaining and engaging, often challenging, and an activity in which the learners play and usually interact with others. Matching game is one of strategy in cooperative learning. In this research, matching game uses flashcard as the media that consist of two kinds of cards that are; question card (verb 1) and answered card (verb 2) and the students should be match the suitable cards. After that, they have discussed about it in the last lesson. Matching game has advantages which it contained flash card attract students’ attention to interpret it and express their ideas related to the card. Matching game also stimulate students to memorize past participle verb easily and fun without forcing them. The researcher formulated the research problems were: 1) How is the student’s grammar achievement before being taught using matching game? 2) How is the student’s grammar achievement after being taught by using matching game? 3) Is there a significant difference between students’ grammar achievement before and after being taught by using matching game? Based on the research problems above, the objectives of research were: 1) To find out the students grammar achievement before being taught using matching game. 2) To find out the students grammar achievement using matching game. 3) To know the significant difference between students’ grammar achievement before and after being taught using matching game. Research method: 1) the research design in this research was pre-experimental design with one group pretest and posttest from quantitative approach, 2) the population of this research was all the eighth grade at MTs Manba’ul ‘Ulum Buntaran Rejotangan Tulungagung was taken as the sample consists of 25 students into one class, 4) the research instrument was a test, 5) the data analysis was using t-test. The result showed that the students mean pretest score was 41.12, and the means posttest score was 71. After analyzed by using paired sample t-test, it showed that T-count was 9.16, whereas T-table with significant level 5% and df = 24 was 2.064. So, T-count was greater than T-table. This means that Ha which states that there is significant effect in using matching game to teach grammar for eighth grade at MTs Manba’ul ‘Ulum Buntaran Rejotangan was accepted. Whereas, Ho which states there is no significant effect in using matching game to teach grammar for eighth grade at MTs Manba’ul ‘Ulum Buntaran Rejotangan was rejected. Based on the result of this study, matching game can be used as an alternative strategy to teach grammar especially in simple past tense for students at MTs level. Then, matching game is expected to be an information material for many teachers especially English teachers in teaching grammar like regular and irregular verb of simple past tense.

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