THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING TRANSFORMATION DRILLS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE MASTERY AT THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMK MUHAMMADIYAH PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014

Abstract

Simple present tense is one of the four basic language skills that must be taught in language learning. It is usually taught in integration with the three other language skills. As one of the language skills, simple present tense is very important for the students. However, in fact, the students do not have enough capability to express their idea with English in grammar language. They often face many difficulties in simple present tense. Therefore, the teacher has to help the students in solving the simple present tens problems such as by using an appropriate method in teaching-learning process. The aims of this research are to find out students’ simple present tense mastery and to describe whether the use of Transformation Drills method is effective to improve students’ simple present tense mastery at the tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah Purworejo in the academic year 2013/2014. The population of this research is the tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah Purworejo and the researcher take 68 students as the sample which divided into two classes. The independent variable is the use of Transformation Drills method in teachingSimple present tense, and the dependent variable is the students’ simple present tense result manifested in the test score. In getting the data, the researcher uses test as an instrument (pre test and post test). The researcher analyze the data by using descriptive statistic analysis (mean, modus, median, SD, and the highest and lowest score) and inferential analysis (normality test, test of homogeneity and ttest as test of hypothesis). As the result the use of Transformation Drills method is effective to improve the students simple present tense mastery of the tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah Purworejo in the academic year 2013/2014. It can be proven by the result of t-test that is 4.174. Then, the researcher consults the critical value on the t-table using the 5% (0.05) alpha level significance and the degree of freedom is 2.000. The computation shows that tvalue is higher than ttable that is 4.174 > 2.000. Related to the result of t-test the mean of post- test is higher than the mean score pre test (72.58>62.97). It means that Transformation Drills method is effective to improve students’ simple present tense mastery at the tenth grade students of SMK muhammadiyah Purworejo in the academic year 2013/2014.