E. Concept of Common Mistake Game
Common mistake game is helping the students learn from their mistake in forming sentence, so that; they can make the sentences correctly. Common mistake game is a
kind of game which can be used in teaching English. Agoestyowatisays that Common mistake game is done individually on a piece of paper. The purpose of this activity is
to motivate the students to be bravely to correct the mistake. In this game the students will explore their grammar because they have to analyze the mistake of the sentences.
She also says that common mistake game is similar to sentence correction.
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Where sentence correction is a game where the players analyze the sentence and if they find
the incorrect one, they should make it correctand arrange the sentence to get score.
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It means that this game can help the students to be more accurate in analyzing sentences, so that the students can make sentences correctly and also increase their
grammar mastery.According to Meissner, Sentence Correction section tests your knowledge of written English grammar.Sentence correction is grammatically correct
and structurally sound.It conforms to allthe rules of standard written English such as subject-verb agreement, verb tense consistency,modifier reference and position,
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RedjekiAgoestyowati,102 English
Games from
A To
Z. Jakarta:
PT GramediaPustakaUtama, 2007p.xiii
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Shula Hirsch,
1999, Sentence
Correction Game.
Available Online
atwww.ehow.comEducation. January 24
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2015.
idiomatic expressions and parallel construction.In addition to being correct, a sentence needs to be effective.
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According to Sharma, sentence correction is to test your knowledge of grammar and enhance your communication abilities, which are considered as strong point for a
student. Sentence correction is required to distinguish incorrect sentences from a correct one.
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In this game the student will be active and they can study tenses directly and it can also make the students interested, fun and easy to understand the material.
In this game, students should be able to write and correct a lot of kinds of words when they are playing this game. On the other hand, the students are also demanded
to understand the basic rules of Conditional sentence. Therefore, in the beginning, the teacher must explain them the basic rule of Conditional Sentence clearly and then
asks the students to play this game.
Based on the definition above, the researcher may conclude that Common Mistake Game is a kind of technique for teaching grammar especiallyconditional sentence to
help the students familiarize themselves in making correct sentences by identifying and distinguishing the correct and incorrect ones.
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JoernMeissner, Turbocharge Your GMAT Sentence Correction Study 4
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Edition New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011, p.13
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A.P. Sharma, Sentence Correction for admission to Foreign Universities GMAT, GRE and TOEFL,New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, p.3
1. Procedure of Teaching Conditional Sentence by Using Common Mistake Game
The following are the steps to apply the common mistake game 1 The activity is done individually on a piece of paper
2 The teacher writes some sentences on the board and tell the students, they have 10 minutes to analyze and arrange the sentence to make the corrections.
3 Teacher asks the students to write 5 sentences. 4 Then asks other students to correct them and explain why those sentences are
wrong. 5 If they think their friends have written with correct grammar, they don‟t need
to give any comment or explanation. 6 When the students‟ papers have been collected, discuss the sentences with the
students.
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It can be concluded that Common Mistake Game is similar to sentence correction and the purpose of this activity is to motivate the students to be brave to correct the
mistake.
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According to Abdeslamb, there are some steps to teach grammar as follows : a. Give a rule that is concerned with a spesific area of grammar to the students
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Redjeki Agoestyawati, 102 English Games from A to Z. Jakarta: PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2007, P.50
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Ibid, p.49
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