Second category was related to th e teacher‟s strategy in teaching grammar
material in prepositions of place previously to solve the students‟ difficulties to
understand of each meaning of prepositions of place. It was found that the teacher applied Grammar Translation Method GTM in teaching grammar. He explained
about the material and then gave the example of the sentences. As the assignment, the teacher asked the students to do some exercises from the students‟ handbook
called LKS. After that, the teacher together with the students disscussed the answers of the exercises and sometimes he translated the sentence into Bahasa
Indonesia. Up to now, the teacher has been looking for an alternative way to teach grammar in order to imp
rove his students‟ ability and also to motivate the students through an appropriate teaching technique in the classroom. At last, the teacher
agreed to implement TPR in a ssisting students‟ ability in using prepositions of
place. See Appendix 7.a: 83-85
2. The Result of Pre Observation
Pre observation was conducted to observe the process of teaching learning
process before doing the action.
It was used to collect data how good teacher‟s performance and students‟ activities during the teaching learning process.
Based on the pre observation was conducted by the writer on 5
th
and 7
th
January 2011 at VII.8 class of SMPN 10 Kota Tangerang Selatan academic year 20102011. The class consisted of 40 students. In general, some techniques used by
the teacher in teaching learning process were techniques usually used GTM Grammar Translation Method. At the first time, the teacher explained what
prepositions of place were. The teacher then gave the examples of prepositions of place in the whiteboard. Furthermore, the students were asked to write the
examples of prepositions of place. Next, the teacher asked the students to open and do the exercises of their LKS. He looked like not really care what his students did
in the classroom. Moreover, the students could not finish the work on time and the teacher often ignored that behavior. Instead, he asked students to continue the task
at home. In the next meeting, the task was discussed together. The students were asked to write the answer of the task on whiteboard one by one.
3. The Result of Pre Test
The writer did the pre-test before the teacher conducted CAR to completing the data of this research. It was used to measure the students‟
understanding of prepositions of place. It held on Friday, January 7
th
20011. And it began from 10.15 a.m. up to 10.45 a.m. In this case, the writer gave 25 questions
about prepositions of place. From this pre-test, it is known the mean score of pre- test done by students was 51.7.
Based on the classification of the data above, it showed that 8 students got the score above the KKM Criterion of Minimum Competence, while KKM of VII
grade at SMPN 10 Kota Tangerang Selatan is 68 sixty eight. Therefore, 32 students were below the standard of KKM. The highest score was 84 and the
lowest achievement gained score 32. From that analyzing, it could be seen that most of the VII.8
students‟ understanding was still low. See Appendix 17
4. The Result of Pre Questionnaire
