Improving students' ability in using simple past tense through Contextual Teaching and Learning method (CTL)

This study is aimed to know whether Contextual Teaching and Learning method (CTL) improve students� ability of simple past tense at class VIII.3 of SMP Bhakti Mulya 400. This study is categorized as the Classroom Action Research (CAR) as the method of research. In this Classroom Action Research, the writer implements the Kurt Lewin�s design. Meanwhile, the data derived from the interview, questionnaire, observation, and test (pretest and posttest). Based on the research findings, it can be said that the use of contextual teaching and learning method in teaching simple past tense is success since the criteria of success is achieved. The criterion of success of this research is 70% of students who can pass the Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal (KKM). which is 65. And the result of the posttest 2 shows that there are 72.22% or 26 students pass the KKM. Besides, the significant improvement is proven by the result of interview, observation, and questionnaire. In sum up, the result of interview, observation, and questionnaire shown that students have a good improvement in learning simple past tense after implementing Contextual Teaching and Learning method (CTL) in the teaching learning process