The use of ball toss game to improve students’ understanding of simple present tense (a classroom action research at the VII C grade of SMP Futuhiyyah Mranggen in the academic year of 2015/2016)

The background of the study in this research is based on the phenomenon that students have difficulties to absorb the lesson and bored because they just sit down on the chair, listen and write what their teacher said when teaching learning process. It makes them difficult to understand and to receive the lesson. To improve students’ understanding, teacher can use Ball Toss Game as a technique and to help her teaching and learning process. This research is aimed to find the answer to the following research question, they are 1)How are students’ participation during taught by using Ball Toss Game to improve students’ understanding of simple present tense at the seventh grade students of SMP Futuhiyyah Mranggen in the academic year of 2015/2016?, 2)How is the improvement of students’ understanding of simple present tense at the seventh grade students of SMP Futuhiyyah Mranggen in the academic year of 2015/2016? The study was to find out whether Ball Toss Game is more effective to improve students’ understanding of simple present tense than non Ball Toss Game. The data collection technique that is used by the researcher are observation, test, documentation. During teaching learning process in pre-cycle, the researcher used conventional method to explain the material and gave the test to know the students’ ability about simple present tense. For the first cycle and the second cycle, the researcher used Classroom Action Research. This research that can be said success if the result of students’ test more than 75% and the students’ average score more than 75. The students’ average score in this cycle was low, 57. 03. Then the researcher took in first cycle. The average score in this cycle is 69. 64. The last cycle is more improved. It can be seen from the average result of the test, 78. 64. The result of the research shows that the students improve their understanding about simple present tense by using Ball Toss Gam