The background of this research is the difficulty which was felt by the students when they were studying English subject, especially grammar. Grammar is one of important thing that must be mastered by everyone who wants to arrange a sentence. This research focuses on one of the grammar rules, that is simple present tense. Most of English teachers do their teaching with conventional ways. In this research, the researcher will share one of the ways how to increase the students’ enthusiastic to learn English subject. One of them is the use of expand game. The problems in this study are as follows:
1. How is the improvement of students’ understanding on Simple Present Tense using Expand Game at Eighth Grade of MTs.M2.Montessori Kaloran Temanggung in the Academic year of 2014/2015?
2. How is the student’s participation in learning process through Expand Game at Eighth Grade of MTs.M2.Montessori Kaloran Temanggung in the Academic year of 2014/2015?
The objectives of this study are to identify the improvement of students understanding on Simple Present after using Expand Game and to describe the student’s participation in learning process through Expand Game at Eighth Grade of MTs.M2.Montessori Kaloran Temanggung in the Academic year of 2014/2015.
This research is a classroom action research. It was done through two cycles. The subject of this study was students Eight Grade MTs.M2.Montessori Kaloran Temanggung in the Academic year of 2014/2015. The number of the subject was 27 students. The data gathered through test, documentation and observation. The result of the study shows that using Expand game can improve students’ achievement in creating simple present tense. The average of the students’ result in cycle one was 78.5 and in the cycle two was 86.6
Based on the result, the writer concludes that using expand game can improve students’ understanding on simple present tense. By doing this research, the researcher hopes the students enjoy in learning English and the English teacher can use this research as reference when she/he wants to teach simple present tense in the future.