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E. Research Benefits
1. The researcher By doing this research the researcher can obtain the new experience on
impr oving students‟ grammar proficiency. It is expected that the researcher can
help the students to gain their knowledge about simple past tense. Besides, the researcher can find the teaching strategy which is appropriate and suitable to
improve the stude nts‟ grammar accuracy of simple past tense in narrative writing.
2. The teacher The teacher can use the method to improve o
ther students‟ grammar accuracy of simple past in narrative writing. It is expected that the teacher can
help the students to solve their problems by applying the teaching strategy. 3. The students
The students can improve their grammar accuracy and master more about simple past tense. It is expected that the students can understand well about
grammar especially simple past tense. The students can apply the knowledge for the next grade in eleventh grade.
F. Definition of Terms
1. Grammatical Accuracy According to Larsen and Freeman 2000, grammatical accuracy in writing
is essential to ensure the writer ‟s intended and to avoid misunderstanding p.2. It
means that grammatical accuracy refers to the ability of writing without making mistakes. Nunan 1999 notes that in the writing criteria, accuracy means using
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grammar accurately, for example word order, verb endings and pronouns. Besides, accuracy also means spelling and using punctuation accurately p.284.
In this study, the accuracy refers to produce the simple past tense verb accurately. 2. Simple Past Tense
Simple past tense is one of tenses in English grammar. According to Azar 1993,
“The simple past tense indicates that an activity or situation began and ended at a particular time in the pa
st” p. 24. It is clear that simple past tense is used to describe actions or situation happened in the past. In this study, the simple
past tense refers to simple past tense verbs used by the students. 3. Writing
According to Nunan 2003, writing is the way of finding ideas and then expressing those ideas by organizing into statements and paragraphs in order p.
88. Nunan 2003 also adds that writing is the way to express and impress feelings, idea or thought in a written form of English p. 88. In this study, writing
refers to an activity which expresses students‟ feeling, idea and thought in a
written form. 4. Feedback
Feedback is a way for teachers to describe their learne rs‟ language;
feedback is an ongoing form of assessment which is more focused than marks or grades Lewis, 2002, p.3. Thus, in this research, feedback is a technique to give
information such as advices, suggestions, comments and corrections which are usually made by the teacher to observe the studen
ts‟ writing products.
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5. Tenth grade Senior High School SMA is the next level of Junior High School SMP.
The students entering Senior High School are those who have passed Junior High School. Senior High School is divided into three grades. The tenth grade is the
first grade in Senior High School. In this research, the participants were 36 students from XD of SMAN 1 Depok Babarsari in the 20112012 academic year,
which consist of 28 girls and 8 boys.
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