Abstract:
This research was applied through experimental research in which aimed to
investigate the effect of Teaching Grammar by applying Board Race Method to
students at SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Medan. This research was conducted at SMP
Muhammadiyah 01 Medan academic year 2019/2020, on Jalan Demak No. 3, Sei
Rengas Pertama, Medan Area. There were seven classes of grade VIII in this
school with total number 315 students and there were 2 classes were taken as the
sample. They were 30 students from class VIII-T1 as experimental group which
taught by applying Board Race Method and 30 students from class VIII-A as
control group which taught by using Lecturing Method. The Instrument for
collecting data was an essay test where students were asked to write a good
sentences in grammar which use in pre-test and post-test. The material of test was
taken from student’s worksheet book for grade VIII junior high school. The data
were analyzed by using t-test formula. Then, the result shown that tobserve(2.64)
was higher than ttable (2.01) with the degree of freedom (df=58). It means that the
alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. In conclusion, the students’ grammar
achievement text was significantly affected by applying Board Race Method in
the classroom.
