The Effectiveness of Using Flash Cards in Teaching Simple Past Tense at The Eight Grade Students of SMP Nurul Muttaqin Purworejo in The Academic Year of 2015/2016

Abstract

The aims of this research is to describes whetherthere is effectiveness of using flash cards in teaching simple past tense .The hypothesis of this research is aimed to find out whetherthere is significant effect or not of using flash cards in teaching simple past tense. This research is quantitative research with experimental design. In this research,the population is the eight grade students of SMP NurulMuttaqin with the total number of population is204students. The sample of this research is 68 students, 34 students as control group and 34 students as experimental group. The researcher uses purposive sampling in taking the samplebecause of limited time. The researcher uses test to get the data ofsimple past tense mastery of the students.The researcher uses descriptive statistics and inferential analysis using SPSSin techniques of analyzing data. The researcher analyzes using descriptive statistics to find out the value of the mean, median, mode, range, standard deviation and variance, whereas inferential analysis is used to prove the hypothesis test in the significance level 0.05. The result shows that the mean score of pre-test of control group is 62.35 besides the mean score of post-test of control group is 63.18.The mean score of pre-test of experimental group is 62.71 and the mean score of post-test of experimental group is 68.12. By comparing the mean score of both groups, it is clear that the mean score of post-test from experimental group is higher than the mean score of post test from control group. The increasing value of experimental group is also higher than the increasing value of control group. In addition, the result of t-test based on the computation of SPSS using Independent T-test showsthatthe result of sig. 2-tailed is 0.010. it means that there is significance difference between post-test resultof control group and experimental group. According to the result of the t-test, it can be concluded that the hypothesis alternative “the use of flash cards is effective in teaching simple past tense at the eight grade students of SMP Nurul Muttaqin Purworejo in the academic year of 2015/2016” is accepted.