IMPROVING THE NINTH YEAR STUDENTS’ STRUCTURE MASTERY ON DEGREES OF COMPARISON BY USING GAMES AT MTSN ARJASA JEMBER

Abstract

Structure is one of the language components that plays a salient role in learning English since by mastering this component the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing will improve. Based on the preliminary study at MTsN Arjasa Jember, it was found that the Ninth year students faced difficulties in learning structure, especially on degrees of comparison. There was only 32% of the students got 60 in the test conducted by the English teacher, whereas the standard score requirement was 65. The students were also considered inactive since they did not participate actively during the English teaching and learning process. Game was the solution undertaken to solve the problem in learning degrees of comparison. It can help the students to learn structure easily as it is fun and interesting. Some previous results approved that games were helpful to stimulate the students’ interest in learning structure. Games in this research were limited to Tick Tick Tick, Tug of Words, Count the Beads, and The Picture Games. The Classroom Action Research (CAR) with cycle model was applied in this study. The actions were carried out to improve the ninth year students’ structure mastery of degrees of comparison by using games at MTsN Arjasa Jember. The research was conducted in two cycles, in which each cycle covered four main sequence stages, namely the planning of the action, the implementing of the action, the classroom observation and evaluation, and the data analysis and reflection. Then,