The effect of mistake buster technique to simple past tense mastery at the eight grade students of SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan

Harahap, Awandha Fitri Kharisma Pratiwi (2024) The effect of mistake buster technique to simple past tense mastery at the eight grade students of SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

Mistake buster technique considered efficient to improve students’ activeness in teaching learning process and improve students’ understanding about grammar in simple past tense. This research was aimed to find out whether mistake buster technique can help students solve their difficulties in learning simple past tense or not. The topic was discussed through the experimental research at the eighth grade of SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. VIII 6 and VIII 7 were used as the data sources to find out the effectiveness of mistake buster technique to teach simple past tense. The data was gathered through documentation and test. The researcher used simple random sampling. VIII 6 was chosen as an experimental class and VIII 7 as a control class. The experimental class was taught by using mistake buster technique and control class taught by Teacher’s method. The test instrument were 25 essay test questions of simple past tense. T-test formula was used to analyze the data. The result was obtained through comparing the posttest’s average score between experimental class and control class. The average score of experimental class was 72.56 and the average score of control class was 62.75. Meanwhile the pre-test’s average score of the experimental class was 44.83 and the average score of control was 45.16. In addition, it is proven that the independent t test result for posttest that the tcount is higher than ttable (2.91 > 1.67). It means there is significant difference in the achievement between experimental class who were taught by using mistake buster technique and control class who were taught without mistake buster technique

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