The effect of using tic tac toe game to students’ understanding on preposition ( in, at, and on) at the VIII Grade of SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan

Hannum, Rubiyah (2024) The effect of using tic tac toe game to students’ understanding on preposition ( in, at, and on) at the VIII Grade of SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

There are several problems faced by students in understanding prepositions grammar including: 1) The students were confused in learning English preposition in, at, and on, since they did not know how to differentiate it and how to use it to make a good sentence, 2) Students got diffculties in understanding English Preposition because they tend to relate them to their mother tongue prepositional system, and 3) The teachers needs to be creative while teaching and learning. The objective of this research was to find out the effect of Tic tac toe game to students’ understanding on preposition at the VIII grade of SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan. Solving those problem, the researcher conducted quantitative research with experimental method. This research used two groups pre- test and post-test design. The instrument of this research was multiple choice test (pre-test and post test). The population of this research was all the VIII grade students of SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan.. Data were collected through pre-test and post-test in the form of multiple choice questions and analyzed using the T-test formula.The research result showed that the students’ mastery on preposition in, at, and on, with the mean score of pre- test in experimental class was higher than control class. After using Tic tac toe game, the result of mean score in post-test increases, it was the mean score of experimental class was higher than control class. It also show from t- test, is high than t – table, the result explained that the hypothesis was accepted. It was concluded that there was a significant effect of Tic tac toe game to students’ understanding on preposition in, at and on, at the Vlll grade of SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan.

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