Topic Teaching structure through games to the students of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri 1 K epahiang, Bengkulu.

Problem statement Studying structure is one of the problems for students who study English. Someti mes they feel difficult and are bored learning it, but in other hand, structure is an important element in mastering English language. In addition, structure is the main capital and important to be taught nowadays, so teachers must try to f ind other alternative techniques of teaching English to make students interested in English lesson. One of them is through game. Game is fun, interactive, and e xciting, and in playing games, students can study English structure easily, in a relax atmosphere, and interestingly. Research question Is teaching structure through games effective for students of Madrasah A liyah Negeri 1 Kepahiang Bengkulu? Are there any significant differences in the results of teaching structu re using games and without games? Treatment The treatment is games that use to the groups. There are two kinds of groups, th e experimental and the control group. The different treatments were applied to t he two groups; the experimental group was taught through games in teaching struc ture, and the control group was taught without game in teaching structure. Both of them were taught the same materials based on the curriculum and in the same m onth. At the end of treatment, the experimental group and the control group rece ived a post-test Experimental unit The sample of this research is all of the students in X class of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri 1 Kepahiang, Bengkulu 2008-2009. The total sample is 89. It was divide d into two groups. The first group is the experimental group (EG) consist of 39 students, and the second one is the control group (CG) consist of 38 students. T he both groups have the same ability. The following is the design of the true experimental research. G1 (random) T1 X T2 G2 (random) T1 T2 Research Design Adapted: Evelyn Hatch and Hossein Earhady, 1982:22 Note T1 : The Pre test X : The treatment T2 : The Posttest G1 : The experimental Group G2 : The Control Group Randomization Sampling is done by proportionate stratified random sampling. This sampling is c hosen because the population is not homogeneous and strata proportionately. Model design Data analysis in this research is quantitative, by which the data is measured in the form of numbers. After the data has been collected, the data is analyzed by using descriptive statistic. In analyzing the data, the writer used t-test. Thi s test is used to determine whether or no there is a significant difference betw een teaching structure through games to the Senior High School students who got the treatment and those who did not. The formula of the t-test by is as follows: t= ((x_1 ) -(x_1 ) )/S_D

x_1 = The mean of x variable x_2 = The mean of y variable S_D = Standard Deviation of the mean difference Hypothesis Hypothesis testing in this research is: H0 : There is no significant difference between teaching English through games and teaching structure without games. Ha : There is a significant difference between teaching English through games an d teaching structure without games .