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I.
INTRODUCTION
I.1 Background of the Study
Teaching and learning cannot be separate, because they are two processes
that relate each other. Teaching is a process of transferring knowledge to someone,
and learning is a process of getting knowledge from someone.
Brown (2000:7) states that:
Learning is acquiring or getting of knowledge of a subject or skill by
study, experience, or instruction. A more specialized definition might read
as follows. Learning is relatively permanent change in behavioral
tendency and is the result of reinforced practice. (Kimble &
Garmezy,1963:133). Similarly, teaching which is implied in the first
definition of learning, may defined as showing or helping someone to
learn how to do something, giving instruction, guiding in the study of
something, providing with knowledge, causing to know or understand..
Teaching cannot be defined apart from learning, enabling the learner to
learn, setting the conditions for learning
English as a foreign language in Indonesia is teach from elementary school
to the highest one like university. The goal of this teaching is not only to enable
the students to understand the target language, but also to enable then to use the
language in oral and written activities. Hence, if the students want to master
English well, they have to master four basic language skills; listening, speaking,
reading and writing. Besides the four language skills, the students need to have a
capability of grammar.
are some difficulties in learning the simple past tense for the students. First, they
have lack of knowledge of regular and irregular verbs. Second, they do not
memorize the form of regular and irregular verbs. Third, they are still confuse to
use simple past tense. Many of them are still make grammatical error and mistake
when they use of simple past tense.
The difficulties of students in using simple past tense are caused by many
factors from internal and external of the language learner. Internally, the
difficulties of using simple past tense by the students caused by motivation in
leaning, interest and etc. Externally, it concludes method, technique or media use
by teacher in language learning activity. By using suitable method, technique or
media, the teacher hopes that students will enjoy their learning activities.
Chalim (2010:2) say that one of the best ways of teaching grammar
structure is using game. Recently, not only in the Kinder Garden, fun and effective
learning is hope can be apply in English learning process for Junior High School
and Senior High School.
According to Wright, et. al. (2005:1) games can help the students to revise
language they learn. Games also help the teacher to create contexts in which the
language is useful and meaningful.
One of the kinds of games learning is matching games. According to Lie
(2008:28) match method is developed by Lorna Curran, matching game is one of
methods in cooperative study. Cooperative study is based on the philosophy of
homo homini socius, that is the philosophy which emphasizes a human being as a
social creature.
Based on the definition above matching game is a game using flash card
that consists of two kind of cards that is question card (card 1) and answer card
(card 2), The students have to match the answer card to the students in question
card based on the changing verb and tenses. In the activity of finding the correct
partner, it will shows the individual accountability where by each student is
responsible for finding the correct answer, so that the researcher interest will do a
research about the effectiveness of using matching games technique to improve
students ability in irregular verbs of simple past tense.
I.2 Statement of the Problem
The research problem is formulize as this: How is the effectiveness of
using matching game to improve students understanding on irregular verb of
simple past tense at the 2nd grade students of SMA N 2 Tondano?
I.3 Purpose of the Study
The purpose of the study is to find out the effectiveness of using matching
game to improve students understanding on irregular verb of simple past tense at
the 2nd grade students of SMA N 2 Tondano.
I.4 Significance of the Study
The researcher hopes this research will used by teacher
1. To make students interest in learning and will make them to study
hard and mastery grammar well
2. Teacher can use as alternative to solving the problem in English
language learning especially in teaching tenses
I.5 Definition of Key Term
II.1
II.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
The Definition of the Matching Games
deal
further
toward
communication
on
Prators
and
grammar
can
be
taught
through
tasks.
for finding the correct answer, so the researcher wants using this technique to
improve students ability in irregular simple past tense.
II.2
Knowing the meaning of grammar for the students will helps them to
understand why grammar is useful and important in language learning. It is
impossible to learn a language without learning the grammar because it tells for
the students or people how to use the language.
Grammar is important when someone wants to acquire English. Grammar
and language cant be separated, if writers or speakers want to speak in English,
they must know the grammar of English first.
According to Murcia and Freeman (1999:9) grammar is descriptive of
what English speakers do, it must reflect the variable performance of its users.
Kreidler (1998:4) says that if a language has no grammar, its speakers will never
be able to communicate with each other, and thus, they will never know each
other. The new utterances of sentences are usually produce by a speaker will have
different ideas or meanings to his hearers and readers or even they will not be
understand.
Consequently, if a language has no grammar, it will never be speak,
because people will be able to learn a language if the language has fix pattern or
regularities. If a language has no grammar, no systematic ordering of its words in
sentences, it can never be learning by a native speaker or by a foreigner.
It is clear that learning English grammar is needed in the English class.
However, there are a lot of theories of grammar or English grammar, there are not
inherently good or bad, right or wrong, true or false, since it is known as the
1. Regular verb
According to Martinet and Thomson (1986:161) the form of
regular verb can be divided by; adding ed, add d only, spelling notes, add
change (y) by (i) before adding ed.
Example:
Clean - Cleaned
Close - Closed
Admit - Admitted
Carry - Carried
2. Irregular verbs
Frank (1972:61) says that if we want to use irregular verbs of a
tense, we must know the principal Parts of the verb itself. The first
principal part of a verb is the simple form of the verb. The second one is
the past form and the third one is the past participle. Sometimes all three
principal parts are different, sometimes the second and the third ones are
alike, sometimes the first and the third ones are alike, or event sometimes
all three principal parts are alike.
1st
2nd
3rd
Begin
Began Begun
Dig
Dug
Dug
Cast
Cast
III.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
III.1
Research Design
Research design that will use in this research is an experimental, namely a
true experimental research. The propose study is experimental in nature due to the
fact that it tries to verify whether there will be a cause-effect relationship between
the independent variables using matching games and conventional method and the
dependent variable, students knowledge on irregular verb of simple past tense
Independent Variable
Matching Games
Conventional Method
Legend:
= Affect
Dependent Variable
Students Knowledge on
Irregular Verb
Seen in terms of the nature of the research question and the purpose of the
study, the present study classify as a true experimental research. The trueexperimental research refer to is the one using posttest only control group design,
as this diagram below:
R
O1
O2
(Gay, 1981)
Legend:
R = Random
X = Experimental treatment
O = Observation (posttest)
III.2
Population and Sample
Population is the entire research subject. Arikunto (2006:130). The
population of this research is all of the 2 nd grade student SMA N 2 Tondano that
consists of 120 students
Sample is a part of population to be researched. Arikunto (2006:131).
Sample in this research are 70 students that will take randomly
III.3
Technique for Collection the Data
In collecting the data the researcher will use test. According to Purwanto
(2009:65) Test is an instrument to collect the data that gives response about the
question in the instrument, and the students have to show their ability. In this
research test will use to know students achievement in grammar especially their
knowledge irregular verb of simple past tense. Kind of test that will use in this
research is objective test.
III.4
Technique for analyze the Data
The data will analyze using statically analysis.
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