THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CLIMBING GRAMMAR MOUNTAIN GAME IN TEACHING SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE AT THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF ISLAMIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL MA’ARIF NU PITURUH IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014

Abstract

English is international language, so teaching english is important neverthless the students still found difficulties in learning English. The growth of media information technology era gives teacher to have opportunity to choose the technique of teaching. It is possible that game will become an alternative technique to teaching learning process. Climbing grammar mountain game is one of games that could be used in teaching simple present tense. This research aims to find the effectiveness of climbing grammar mountain game in teaching simple present tense. In order to know the effectiveness, the researcher compares the result of teaching by using common method to the result of teaching using climbing grammar mountain game. This research is called experimental research. The population of this research is the seventh grade students of Islamic Junior High school Ma’arif NU Pituruh in the academic year 2013/2014. The researcher took two classes, VII A consist of 30 students as the control group and VII B consist of 30 students as the experimental group. The sampling technique which is used is purposive sampling. The instrument that used to collect the data is a test. The form of the test is divided into two parts. Those are pre-test and post-test, and to analyze the data, the researcher used t-test formula. The result of this research found that the climbing grammar mountain game is effective to improve students’ ability to use of simple present tense. The result compared to the value of t-table 6.775>2.0017. Then, the computation of ttest shows that the Ha is accepted. The highest score was gotten by the student in experimental group after treatment is 93.33. The lowest score was gotten by the student in control group is 50.00. After the test, the scores were found that the pretest mean of the experimental group was 69.33, and the experimental has mean score78.67 in post test. Moreover, the mean pre-test of the control group was 64.56, while the post test of control group has mean score 65.22. Based on the result of the research finding, the researcher concludes that the climbing grammar mountain game is effective in teaching simple present tense.