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?IMPROVING THE STUDENTS? MASTERY IN USING SIMPLE PAST TENSE THROUGH TIC TAC TOE GAME?

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Nisa?, Syafa?atun. 2015 : ?Improving The Students? Mastery In Using Simple Past Tense Through Tic Tac Toe Game?, (A Case of Eleventh Grade of MA Al-Hidayah Jenu Tuban In Academic Year 2014/2015)
Advisor : Drs. Mansur, M.Pd
Key words : simple past tense, tic tac toe, game, classroom action research.
Learning English involves the mastery of four language skills. They are listening, reading, writing and speaking. Beside it, the learners must learn about the structure of the sentence (grammar), because without these structures it is difficult to make comprehensible sentences. In this research, the researcher through Tic Tac Toe game to improve the students? mastery in using simple past tense. The researcher focused on simple past tense because most of students cannot distinguish simple past and simple present in sentence. The researcher used game because everyone likes game. Game also one of teaching techniques to solve students? boredom when teaching and learning process. The objectives of the study are:
1. To describe the implementation through Tic Tac Toe game to improve the students' mastery in using simple past tense.
2. To find out the improvement of the students' mastery in using simple past tense through Tic Tac Toe game.
The subjects of this study were the students of XI-2 of MA Al-Hidayah Jenu Tuban in the academic year of 2014/2015. The number of the subjects was 28 students. This research is a classroom action research. It was done through three cycles. The researcher used documentation, test and observation to collect the data. The researcher used descriptive quantitative to analyze the data. Statistic analysis is used to analyze the data about the result of observation and the result of test on simple past tense.
Result of the study showed that through by using Tic Tac Toe game in teaching simple past tense at the eleventh grade of MA Al-Hidayah Jenu Tuban in the academic year of 2014/2015 can improve students? mastery on it. This successfulness can be seen from the result of students? average score and good responses by students. The result after getting all of the treatment using Tic Tac Toe game, the students? average score increased in line with the increase of the students? achievement in each cycle. Students? average score from the pre cycle was 5.28, first cycle was 6.57, second cycle was 7.44, and the third cycle was 8.32.
Finally the result of this research showed that the students? mastery improved in each cycle after they were taught through using Tic Tac Toe game. It was signed by their improvements of each result test.

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Tuban : Unirow., 2015

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