USING WORDS JUMP GAME TO IMPROVE GRAMMAR

Abstract

Successful teaching and learning process depends on strategy used by the teacher. The more interesting the strategy is used, the more effective of teaching and learning process will be. This study proposed a teaching strategy using game called WJG (WJG) to help the seventhgrade students of SMP Negeri 4 Kupang Tengah master the knowledge of English while improving their writing ability related to the learning topics. The use of WJG focused on improving students’ knowledge of tenses especially Simple Present Tense and improving students’ descriptive writing ability using simple present tense. This study intended to know how WJG improves students’ knowledge of simple present tense and to know whether this WJG is effective in improving students’ descriptive writing ability. By using observation checklist and triangulation as the qualitative data, the study revealed that students’ achievement in learning was increased significantly, and also by using one group pre-test and post-test design as the quantitative data, it revealed that WJG strategy was effective. It was supported by data analysis using t-test to measure the effectiveness of WJG, where tvalue is 9.52 > t-table is 2.05.

Keywords: Teaching Strategy, Word Jump Game (WJG), Improve, Grammar