The Effect of Teaching Grammar by applying Board Race Method to students at SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Medan

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.