THE USE OF POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT TO IMPROVE CLASS X-7 STUDENTS’ ACTIVE PARTICIPATION AND SIMPLE PAST TENSE ACHIEVEMENT AT SMAN KALISAT

Abstract

The design used in this research was classroom action research. The purpose of conducting this research was to improve class X-7 students’ active participation and simple past tense achievement at SMAN Kalisat. The researcher used positive reinforcement because the researcher believed that positive reinforcement could improve class X-7 active participation and simple past tense achievement during the teaching learning process. Positive reinforcement used in this research was material reinforcement and social reinforcement. Both reinforcements were used during the teaching learning process of simple past tense. Besides, the researcher used continuous schedule to give reinforcement to the students. It means that the researcher gave reinforcement after every correct response that was given by the students.