THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ARRANGING WORD GAME IN TEACHING GRAMMAR AT VIII GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 2 SIMPANG ALAHAN MATI
ABSTRACT Yona Meidiastuti, 2316048. The Effectiveness of Arranging Word Game in Teaching Grammar at VIII Grade Students of SMPN 2 SIMPANG ALAHAN MATI. A Thesis, State Islamic Institute (IAIN) Bukittinggi, 2020. The aim of this research was to know how the students’ ability in arranging word into a sentence of simple present tense and effectiveness of Arranging Word Game in teaching simple present tense at VIII Grade Students of SMPN 2 SIMPANG ALAHAN MATI. The researcher found some problems that related to arranging word game which was used by English teacher. The first problem was English teacher has been applied Arranging Word Game in teaching simple present tense, but some students still had difficulties in arranging word into a sentence. The second problem was most of students often forgot with the structure of the sentence which was taught by the teacher before such as the structure of simple present tense. The third problem was some students still can not make sentence such as arranging word into a good sentence and can not understand the material well. This research used a descriptive quantitative research. The population of this research was all students at VIII Grade of SMP N 2 SIMPANG ALAHAN MATI where it consisted of two classes which were VIII.1 and VIII.2. In this research, the researcher used total sampling as a sampling technique and the total of sample was 65 students of VIII Grade students. The instruments that were used in this research were test and questionnaire. Based the result of this research, it was concluded that students’ ability in arranging word into sentence of simple present tense at VIII Grade Students of SMPN 2 SIMPANG ALAHAN MATI was very good category where the mean of students’ test result was 88,06 which was on the very good category. Furthermore, Arranging Word game was effective to be used in teaching simple present tense at VIII Grade Student of SMPN 2 SIMPANG ALAHAN MATI where it was gotten from the mean data percentage of students’ questionnaire result which was 75,58% on the percentage of rating scale on 72-89% which it was effective on rating quality. Keyword: Arranging Word Game, Teaching Grammar, Simple Present Tense