THE STUDENTS’ MASTERY OF IRREGULAR VERBS TAUGHT BY USING WORD-SEARCH-PUZZLE GAMES (A Classroom Action Research at the Eighth Grade Students of MTs.Miftahul Huda Raguklampitan Batealit Jepara in Academic Year 2013/2014)

Septiyana, Noor Farida (2014) THE STUDENTS’ MASTERY OF IRREGULAR VERBS TAUGHT BY USING WORD-SEARCH-PUZZLE GAMES (A Classroom Action Research at the Eighth Grade Students of MTs.Miftahul Huda Raguklampitan Batealit Jepara in Academic Year 2013/2014). Update Test thesis, Universitas Muria Kudus.

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Based on the syllabus of Junior High School, there are four skills that must be mastered by the students; they are listening, speaking, reading and writing. Talking about writing skill, the students learn narrative and recount text in the even semester. The students have to understand about the generic structure and also the language features in writing recount text. Simple past tense is one of the language features in writing recount text. The students must pay attention for this because there are two kinds of verbs on simple past tense; regular and irregular verbs. In MTs. Miftahul Huda Raguklampitan Batealit Jepara, the writer found some problems faced by the students in understanding the verbs of simple past tense, especially for irregular verbs. Therefore, the writer conducted classroom action research to solve those problems. The writer used word – search – puzzle games in improving the mastery of irregular verbs for the eighth grade students of MTs. Miftahul Huda Raguklampitan Batealit Jepara. The writer has some purposes in conducting this research. The purposes of this classroom action research are the writer wants to find out whether word-search-puzzle games can improve the mastery of irregular verbs forthe eighth grade students in MTs. Miftahul Huda Raguklampitan Batealit Jepara in the academic year 2013/2014 or not and the writer wants to explain how word-search-puzzle games can improve the mastery of irregular verbs for the eighth grade students in MTs. Miftahul Huda Raguklampitan Batealit Jepara in the academic year 2013/2014. This research was classroom action research. It was conducted in MTs. Miftahul Huda Raguklampitan Batealit Jepara. There are three classes of the eighth grade in this school; VIII A, VIII B, and VIII C. The subject of this research was the eighth grade students in class VIII B of MTs. Miftahul Huda Raguklampitan Batealit Jepara in academic year 2013/2014 with total number 30 students; they are 12 male and 18 female students. There were two cycles in this classroom action research. Each cycle consisted of planning, action, observation, and reflection. The instruments used by the writer for this research were test and observation sheet. The result of this research shows that the total score of the students was 2252.5 and the average score was 75.08 in the first cycle. In the second cycle, the total score of the students was 2890 and the average score was 96.3. Based on this data, it can be seen that the improvement of students’ mastery of irregular verbs between the first cycle and the second cycle is about 21.9%. Besides that, there is also improvement in the implementation of word – search – puzzle games in teaching and learning irregular verbs of simple past tense. In the first cycle, there were some students who were still passive in playing word – search – puzzle games. They looked they were not interested in playing this game. In the second cycle, there was no passive student in playing word – search – puzzle games because they played this game in pair. The teacher motivated the students in teaching and learning process by giving some gifts for the students. Based on the explanations above, it can be concluded that word – search – puzzle games can improve the students’ mastery of irregular verbs for the eighth grade students of MTs. Miftahul Huda Ragukamplitan Batealit Jepara in the academic year 2013/2014 so the English teacher can use this game in teaching and learning irregular verbs of simple past tense. Word – search – puzzle games helped the eighth grade students of MTs. Miftahul Huda Raguklampitan Batealit Jepara in understanding irregular verbs of simple past tense.

Item Type: Skripsi/ Thesis (Update Test)
Dosen Pembimbing: Pembimbing I: Dra. Sri EndangKusmaryati, M.Pd Pembimbing II: Atik Rokhayani, S.Pd. M.Pd
Kata Kunci: Word – search – puzzle games, teaching technique, grammar, irregular verb
Subjects: Bahasa dan sastra > Bahasa Inggris
Program Studi: Fakultas Keguruan & Ilmu Pendidikan > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: asih winarti
Date Deposited: 06 Sep 2014 03:20
Last Modified: 06 Sep 2014 03:20
URI: http://eprints.umk.ac.id/id/eprint/3268

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