The use of spelling bee game to improve students’ understanding of simple past tense a classroom action research at eighth grade of MTs Miftahul Khoirot Branjang-Ungaran in the academic year of 2015/2016

Main Author: Choriana, Devia Nikita
Format: Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2016
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Online Access: https://eprints.walisongo.ac.id/id/eprint/6076/1/113411055.pdf
https://eprints.walisongo.ac.id/id/eprint/6076/
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  • The background of this research was based on the students’ difficulties in understanding of simple past tense. To develop teaching grammar, teacher must have a technique in teaching grammar to help students understand the grammar easily. In this research the researcher used Spelling Bee Game to help students understanding on grammar easily. This study focused on writing skill at the eighth grade of MTs. Miftahul Khoirot Branjang-Ungaran In the academic year of 2014/2015. This researchdiscuss about the use of spelling be game to improve students’ understanding ofsimple past tense. The goal ofthis study was (1) To describe the students’ enthusiastic in studying simple past tense through Spelling Bee game at eight grade students of MTs.MiftahulKhoirotBranjang –Ungaran in academic year of 2015/2016. (2) To find out the improvement of students’ understanding in simple past tense after being taught using Spelling Bee game at eight grade students of MTs.MiftahulKhoirotBranjang –Ungaran in academic year of 2015/2016. The implementation of Spelling Bee Game in teaching simple past tense at MTs. Miftahul Khoirot Branjang was conducted in two cycles including cycle 1 and cycle 2. The participant of this study was 26 students in class A. In the first cycle the students’ enthusiastic was 56% while in the second cycle was 80%. It means that spelling bee game could improve students’ enthusiastic significantly. The result of this study showed that used spelling bee game could improve students’ understanding of simple past tense. This was proved by students’ comprehension test that improved in every cycle. In the first cycle, the average of students’ score was 68.12. In the second cycle, the students got 79.09.The result of this research showed that the used of spelling bee game could improve students’ understanding of simple past tense.