The Use of Chinese Whispers to Enhance Students' Mastery of Simple Present: A Classroom Action Research

drs. kusmajid, m.pd.; elin driana, ph.d.; hamzah puadi ilyas, ph.d.;

This thesis entitled The Use of Chinese Whispers to Enhance Students’ Mastery of Simple Present: A Classroom Action Research. The focus of the research was to find out whether the use of Chinese whispers could enhance the students’ simple present mastery, how to use Chinese whispers and also to investigate students’ difficulty in mastering simple present. Classroom action research was carried out form July to August 2019. There were fourty students of seventh grade at SMP Negeri 1 Parung who were involved in this research. The research was conducted in two cycles and there were two meetings for each cycle. The procedures of the research were planning the action, implementing the action, observing the action and reflecting the action. In collecting the data, the researcher used field notes, interview, observation, and test. The final result of the study revealed that there
was a significant improvement in their achievement since they learned the lessons through Chinese whisper. Students’ percentage who passed the minimum criteria in the pre-test was 47,5%, in the test 1 was 60%, in the test 2 was 85%, and 87,5% in the post-test. Referring to the overall results of the study, the use of Chinese whispers could be considered as one of alternatives and effective teaching methods to improve students’ mastery of the simple present tense.