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Use Simple Present and Simple Past Tenses Through Egra Method

ABSTRACT

ZAINAL KALEAN, 2012. Improving the students’ Ability to use Simple Present and Simple Past Tenses Through Egra Method (A classroom action research at the second  class of SMPN 4 Sungguminasa), under the thesis of English Education Department the Faculty of Teachers Training and Education, University of Muhammadiya Makassar (guided by Prof. Dr. H. Abd Muis Ba’dulu, Ms and St Asriati, S.Pd. M.Hum).
            This research aimed to explain the improvement of the students’ English tense ability in terms of simple present and simple past tense in positive, negative, and interrogative sentence.
To explain the improvement, the researcher used a classroom action research which was conducted in two cycles in which every cycle consisted of four meetings. The place of this research was taken at the second class of SMPN 4 Sungguminasa with a number of the subjects were 34 students.

            The research findings indicated that the implementation of Egra method is significant to improve the students’ English tense ability in terms of simple present and simple past tense in positive, negative, and interrogative sentence. It was proved by the mean score of cycle I is 64.35 then improved to be 85.23 in cycle II. They were higher than the mean score of diagnostic test namely 47.12. Therefore, there is the improvement of the students’ English tense ability terms of simple present tense and simple past tense in positive, negative, and interrogative statement. Implementation of EGRA method also improved the students’ activeness in teaching and learning process. It was proved by the activeness score of cycle I was 34.18% become 64.15% in Cycle II, and the improvement the students activeness from cycle I to cycle II was 29.97%. therefore, there was improvement of students’ activeness in teaching and learning process with using EGRA method.

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