The effectiveness of teams games tournament (TGT) technique on students? mastery of simple past tense (a quasi-experimental study in the eighth grade of MTs N 13 Jakarta)
| Main Author: | Hery Fitriyanto |
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| Format: | Bachelors |
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Fakultas Ilmu Tarbiyah dan Keguruan
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- This research investigated the use of TGT in teaching Simple Past Tense. It is conducted because TGT as a technique of cooperative learning is considered could solve the problem that is students? low achievement in Simple Past Tense. The use of TGT gives students an opportunity to work in group with other students and helps each other in teaching learning process in order to master the subject material. The objective of this research was to know the empirical evidence of the differences of students? achievement in learning grammar of Simple Past Tense between students who are taught through TGT technique and students who are taught without TGT technique and to know whether TGT was effective to improve students? mastery of Simple Past Tense. The method that used in this study is a quasi experimental research. The population of this research is students of eighth grade students of MTs N 13 Petukangan Jakarta Selatan. The population of the study were 172 students of eight graders. While, the sample of the study were VIII-A and VIII-B. Cluster random sampling was choosen as the technique of sampling. VIII-A was chosen as the control class and VIII-B as the experimental class. The result of data analysis used t-test formula showed, the value of to was 2.50 with degree of freedom 66 in the significance degree (?) of 5%, tt is 1.668, then in the significance of 1%=2.384. It meant that, to>tt (to was higher than tt). So, the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. Then, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted that there was an effectiveness of Teams Games Tournament (TGT) on students? mastery of simple past tense. The Mean score of Students? posttest in experimental class was higher than in control class. The gained score of experimental class was also higher than the gained score of control class. It meant that the use of TGT in teaching Simple Past Tense was effective to improve students? achievement in Simple Past Tense.