Improving students' ability in using prepositions of place through total physical response (TPR) (a classrom action research at first grade of SMPN 10 kota Tangerang selatan)

This research has purpose to know whether students? ability in using prepositions of place could be improved through Total Physical Response. It is also to discuss how Total Physical Response improve students? ability in using prepositions of place at first grade of SMPN 10 Kota Tangerang Selatan. The resarcher used Classroom Action Reseacrh (CAR) to solve students? problem in understanding prepositions of place. The Kurt Lewin?s model which consists of four phases, planning, acting, observing and reflecting is implemented in this study. The data in this research can be derived from test, questionnaire, observation, and interview. The reaseacher used descriptive analysis and statistic analysis to know the result of implementation the CAR to the VII.8 students of SMPN 10 Kota Tangerang Selatan. The findings of this research show that the implementation of CAR is successful since the criterion of success is achieved. The improvement of the students? understanding of prepositions of place can be seen clearly in the improvement of their achievement in pretest and posttest. The mean of pretest score is 51.7 meanwhile the minimal mastery criterion (Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal/ KKM) is 68. It means that there are only 22.5% students could pass the KKM. Next, the mean of posttest 1 and posttest 2 score are 72.7 and 84. At last of the reasearch showed that the percentage of students who could get the score above the KKM is 90%. Besides, the significant improvement can be seen from the students? response in teaching learning process. The result of observation and interview showed that students were active involved in the classroom