THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING SUBSTITUTION DRILL TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN UNDERSTANDING SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE AT THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1 PETANAHAN IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

The objective of this study is to find out whether or not the use of substitution drill technique is able to improve students’ ability in understanding simple present tense at the seventh grade students of Junior High School 1 Petanahan, Kebumen in academic year 2012/2013. The type of this research is experimental research. The number of the sample is 62. The sampling technique which is used is purposive sampling. The instrument that used to collect the data is a test. The form of the test is divided into two parts. Those are pre-test and post-test. And to analysis the data, the researcher used t-test formula. The result of the research finds that the mean score of pre-test in experimental group is 60.68 and the mean score of post-test is 82.06. Then the value of t-test is 8.34 and the t-table is 2.000. The result of computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table, that is 8.34 > 2.000 so it can be stated that the hypothesis “substitution drill technique to improve students’ ability in understanding simple present tense is effective” is accepted.