Improving The Students Mastery of Simple Past Tense by Using Climbing Grammar Mountain Game of Class IX A on Junior High School 6 Jember

Mohammad Agil, Irfani (2024) Improving The Students Mastery of Simple Past Tense by Using Climbing Grammar Mountain Game of Class IX A on Junior High School 6 Jember. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Keywords: Simple Past Tense, Climbing Grammar Mountain Game. Learning a language means learning to use the language to communicate both in oral form (listening and speaking) and written form (reading and writing). Learning language particularly English, involves four skill on K13 (Task based curriculum). Besides that, english has some aspects or language components. They are vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. As happened in Junior High School 6 Jember, especially for the class of IX A, the students still less interested and bored in English lessons and only a few students were still interested, especially in learning simple past tense. Hence, the strategy is needed in teaching learning with the aim of solving students’ problems in improving simple past tense mastery. One of the strategies that can be used is Climbing Grammar Mountain game (CGMG) strategy that is expectedly able to help students in improving their simple past tense mastery. The research question in this research is “How can the implementation of Climbing Grammar Mountain game improve grammar mastery of simple past tense for the students IX A of Junior High School 6 Jember?”. This research is aimed to describe the implementation of Climbing Grammar Mountain game improve grammar mastery of simple past tense for the students IX A of Junior High School 6 Jember. This research design is a Classroom Action Research (CAR) with one cycle conducted in three meetings. This research was conducted at Junior High School 6 Jember, Kaliwates-Jember. The participants of this research were 31 students of class IX A. This research used the procedure of Kemmis and McTaggart which are planning, action, observation and reflection. This study used two tests to measure the improvement of students' mastery on simple past tense, namely pre-test and post-test. The data collection techniques used in this study were observation, document review, test, and reflection. The results of students' test scores in cycle 1 showed that there were 28 students or 89,6 % students who scored up to 75 or passed the KKM, and 3 students or 10,4 % students still did not reach the KKM score. and the percentage of their scores is 89,6%. It can be concluded that the researcher has achieved the success criteria of 80%. and It indicated that climbing grammar mountain game could improve the students’ ability in using the simple past tense. This result was strengthened by the observation and the interview that showed the students were enthusiastic and active in the learning process.

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