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

Abstract

This research 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 from July to August 2022. There were forty students in 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 on the action. In collecting the data, the researcher used field notes, interviews, observations, and tests. 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 test 1 was 60%, in 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 the alternatives and effective teaching methods to improve students’ mastery of the simple present tense.