increase their mastery in Simple Past Tense by using this activity under the consideration as follow:
Based on the data analysis done by the writer, she finds that there are only five students or 16.42 who could pass the Minimum Mastery Criterion KKM
before the intervention is carried out. Moreover, on the cycle 1 there are twelve students who got score of 70 and above or 42.86 from the total number of the
students. Since the improvement of students‟ score of Simple Past Tense by using N-Gain formula is categorized low g = 0.28, so that the writer and the teacher
still need to improve it by moving to the cycle 2. Furthermore, on the cycle 2 there are twenty students who get score of 70 and above or 71.42 students who can
pass the Minimum Mastery Criterion KKM. The impro vement of students‟ score
in Simple Past Tense form the pre-test to second post-test is 0.53. The calculation of g =0.53 is categorized medium improvement. Since more than 70 from
the total number of students pass the Minimum Mastery Criterion KKM seventy score, so that it has reached the success and the intervention is stopped.
B. Recommendation
The writer would like to give some recommendations for teachers. First, Information-Gap Activity will be helpful to conduct communicative class activity
as a practice in teaching Simple Past Tense. Second, teachers need to explain the situation and the rule of the activity as clear as possible to students in order that
they are not confused how to do it. Third, since Information-Gap Activity provides different worksheet for each student in a pair, teachers need to make sure
that students do not look at their pairs‟ worksheet so as to make the activity works well.
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