This research is conducted to know whether using story on hadiths an effective way to develop students’ understanding in learning Simple Past Tense at second grade of MTs Darul Ulum Purwogondo Kalinyamatan Jepara, and took 32 students as respondent. While Simple Past Tense is one of the English language rules that students should be understood. One of the difficulties which are faced by the students in learning regular and irregular verbs and lack of remembering of the past form. To know about regular and irregular verbs well, teacher must continue looking for more effective and interesting technique in teaching especially teaching Simple Past Tense, the researcher used story on hadiths because language feature of story used Simple Past Tense.
This research used Classroom Action Research (CAR) method in developing students’ understanding of the Simple Past Tense. The researcher used the Kurt Lewins’ model that consists of four phases, planning, acting, observing and reflecting. Then, in collecting and analyzing the data, the writer used documentation, observation, and test that contain pretest, cycles test and posttest.
The result of this research showed that using story on hadiths in learning Simple Past Tense at VIII-A grade of MTs Darul Ulum Purwogondo Kalinyamatan Jepara could motivate the students to develop their understanding on Simple Past Tense. The students’ responses showed that they were enthusiastic to learn and the activities were interesting. Moreover, the students’ achievements in pretest, cycle 1 test, cycle 2 test and posttest showed a significant improvement. Initially, the students’ average score in pretest was 60.78, there were only 25% of the whole students who could pass the KKM. Afterwards, the students’ average score in first cycle test was 66.56, there were only31.25% of the whole students who could pass the KKM. In the second cycle test was 73.75, there were 40,63 % of the whole students who could pass the KKM. Finally, the students’ average score in post test was82.19, there were 75 % of the whole students who could pass the KKM, and there were only 25 % of students who could not pass the KKM. From this result, the researcher concluded that teaching the Simple Past Tense by using story on hadiths at second grade of MTs Darul Ulum Purwogondo Kalinyamatan Jepara has significant improvement