8. Where were you at 06.00 last mornings? Were you in the bathroom? 9. There was a pencil in the pencil case last time, but it lost.
10. Were you a science winner competition last year?
Dragon Snake : 1
Please make five short conversations from these 10 sentences above
Gold Ladder : 4 Cobra Snake : 2
Stone Ladder : 9 Yellow Snake : 10
Wood Ladder : 3 Python Snake : 7
Silver Ladder : 5 Poison Snake : 8
Ice Ladder : 6
Observation In this third cycle, the writer gets good responses from the
students. They are always fun during the action or teaching learning process. There are many students’ improvements in understanding simple
past tense.
Reflection The responses are good; the students hope to do the game in every
class meeting by teacher clear explanation about the material or subject. A lot of teachers just give explanation and exercise, there isn’t practice.
4. Data of Questionnaire
In this action research, the writer gives two questionnaires to the student, the first questionnaire is before action research, and the second
questionnaire is after action research.
The first questionnaire is given on 10
th
of May 2010 about student; student response to English subject, teacher character they like, and many
others about student love in English, this questionnaire is important for knowing student love and like in English and making easy in teaching
learning process; why do they like English? In the first questionnaire, the writer knows the students; their
hobbies, material they like in English, class situation they love in studying and learning, type of activities they like to do in the classroom, and student
work. These are very important for understanding the student and making a strategy in teaching learning process easily.
From this questionnaire the writer knows the students’ names, this is very important for getting the sympathy from the student when teaching
learning process are in progress. Also the writer knows the student hobby; almost students have the same hobby is playing the game in general. In
addition, the students love cheerful, appreciating, and firm attitude teacher. Another, the student love to study actively and directly practice. The last, the
students love to study in group than individual, because they can make a discussion and sharing about the subject with their friend.
The second questionnaire is on 1
st
June 2010 about students’ responses to the action research, are they fun? Is the method used by the
writer good? Are the students’ responses good? What do the student fell simple past tense?
In the second questionnaire, there are questions for the students’ responses about action research:
o Half of the students are about 59, 38 like to learn English, and the rest
are about 40, 62 don’t like to learn English. o
Half of the students are about 59, 38 have ever studied Grammar and tense before come to MTs Pembangunan UIN Jakarta, and the rest of them
are not. o
Half of the students are about 53, 12 said that tenses are difficult, and the rest of them are about 46, 88 said that tenses are easy,
o About 65, 62 of students said that they are difficult in learning tense
o About 65, 62 of student said that they don’t like learn the formula in
tenses o
Half of the students are about 56, 25 said that tense are difficult to be remembered.
o About 40, 62 of students are difficult in learning simple past tense.
o After the action: 87,5 student said that simple past tense is easy
especially in making and changing the sentence from affirmative, negative and interrogative.
o About 71, 88 of students don’t confuse again in using the verb one and
verb two. o
About 84, 38 of students understand the use of was and were in simple past tense
o Almost students are about 87,5 of student love to study simple past tense
by game o
Almost student are about 90, 62 have the development in simple past tense understanding after they have done the grammatical snakes and
ladders strategy in learning simple past tense. o
They are about 87, 5 students don’t have difficulties in playing snakes and ladders game.
o About 78,12 of students agree if grammatical snakes and ladders game
is used in English teaching strategy. o
About 87,5 of students enjoy, and they are fun in learning simple past tense by grammatical snakes and ladders game.
o About 71, 88 of students are motivated to learn more spirit than before.
o All the students have never done this grammatical snakes and ladders
game strategy in their English class and in another class subject. They do this game as the first time in class.,
o About 68,75 of students agree that this grammatical snakes and ladders
game is done with another teacher, and another subject. o
About 87, 5 students enjoy the action research class.
5. Data of The Test
