%0 Generic
%A 0543042029 , Nelly Fitria 
%D 2011
%F eprints:9609
%T IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN PRESENT CONTINUOUS  TENSE THROUGH SIMPLE SENTENCES EXERCISES BY USING  PICTURES AT THE FIRST YAER OF SMP N 22 BANDAR LAMPUNG
%U http://digilib.unila.ac.id/9609/
%X Tenses are generally difficult language aspects to study because present  continouos tense applied personal pronoun, to be, and verb –ing form. Those  aspects made present continuous tense was boring and confusing to be learnt by  students.  This research was quantitative research based on experimental method. In  conducting the research, the researcher used one group pretest posttest design. The  objective of this research are to see whether there is a significant improvement of  students’ ability in present continuous tense after being taught through simple  sentence exercise by using pictures. The population of the research was the first  year of SMPN 22 Bandar Lampung in the academic year of 2010/2011. Class  VIIA was chosen as experimental class.  In collecting the data, the researcher administrated the pretest, three time  treatments, and posttest. The pretest was given to know is there any significant  improvement of students’ ability in present continuous tense after they are taught  by means of simple sentence exercises by using pictures. The data was analyzes  by using repeated measures T-test. In which the significance was determined by  p<0.05. The total of pretest is 60,35 and in posttest the total score is 89,62, and the  gain is 29,27. The result of T-test computation shows that t-ratio is higher than t-  table, that is (25.118>2.021). The hypothesis test showed the value of two tail  significant was (2-tailed) value was 0.000(p<0.05, p=0.000)The result showed  that there was significant difference of students’ ability in present continuous  tense after they are taught by means of simple sentence exercises using pictures.