The Effectiveness of Course Review Horay (CRH) Method in Teaching Students’ Simple Past Tense Mastery at the Eight Grade students of SMP N 26 Purworejo in the Academic Year of 2015/2016

Abstract

Language is an important tool our life and English has been choosing as the international language by the world communities. As a language, English has some parts to be mastered include listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar. To mastering English we must mastering those parts by studying English. It is also important for us to mastery grammar because grammar has important role in mastering other parts of English. Grammar for Junior High School is also important to be learnt. Choose the right method in teaching grammar also necessary. One instructional method that keeps student active in a lesson is introducing cooperative learning using Course Review Horay (CRH) method. This research belongs to experimental research because in conducting the data the researcher uses treatment using Course Review Horay (CRH) method. The researcher has conducted the research in SMP N 26 Purworejo. The population of this research is the eighth grade students. Consists 219 students from seven classes. The sample of this research is VIII A (31 students) as of control group and VIII B (32 students) as the experimental group. After doing analysis, the researcher concludes that this study shows positive and significant effectiveness of teaching simple past tense using Course Review Horay (CRH) method (Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted), since it was found that the result of t-value 5.883 and the t-table shows 2.000 in the level significant of t-table is 5%. It shows that t-value is higher that t-table (5.883>2.000). The students who are taught using Course Review Horay (CRH) is indicated will get better ability rather than students who has been taught using common method. It means that there is significant effective of using Course Review Horay (CRH) method in teaching simple past tense at the eighth grade of SMP N 26 Purworejo.