THE INFLUENCE OF ARRANGING WORD GAME TOWARDS STUDENTS’ DEGREE OF COMPARISON MASTERY AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE EIGHTH GRADE OF SMP PGRI 6 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2018/2019

Grammar is one of the most important element in making good sentences in the composition. If mastering English grammar well, we can make a good position. One of the difficulties of students in English grammar is degree of comparison. The students’ degree of comparison in SMP PGRI 6 Bandar Lampung was still low. The objective of this research was to know whether there was influence of arranging word game towards students’ degree of comparison mastery at the first semester of the eighth grade of SMP PGRI 6 Bandar Lampung in the academic year of 2018/2019. The methodology of this research was quasi experimental design with five meetings for each class and it consist of one meeting for pretest, three meetings for treatment and one meeting for posttest. In the experimental class the researcher applied arranging word game as treatment and control class, the researcher applied lecturing technique. The population of this research was eighth grade students of SMP PGRI 6 Bandar Lampung. In collecting the data, the researcher used test, the researcher took the sample by using cluster random technique and the researcher determine that VIII H as the experimental class and VIII I as the control class. The researcher used instruments, pre-test and post-test. The instrument of this research was degree of comparison test. After giving the posttest, the researcher analyzed the data by using SPSS to compute independent sample t-test. After the researcher analyzed the data by using independent sample t-test, it was found that the result of Sig. (2-tailed) of the equal variance was 0.000 < α = 0.05. It means that Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. Based on the computation, it can be concluded that there was influence of arranging word game towards students’ degree of comparison mastery at the first semester of the eighth grade of SMP PGRI 6 Bandar Lampung in the academic year of 2018/2019