THE EFFECT OF TBLT IN ENGLISH PAST TENSE ACQUISITION USING test-english.com FOR 8th GRADERS

Abstract

In such a modern world like nowadays, English is important to be mastered by students as it is the international language used in the world. Recalling the importance of English, it is essential to find out various learning methods to teach English to students in countries where English is a foreign language. Therefore, this pre-experimental paper sought to find out whether teaching using the Task-Based Language Teaching method and web-based learning can improve students’ knowledge simple past tense. There were thirty-one 8th grade students from SMP Katolik Wijana Jombang were chosen to be samples of this study. The students had a pre- and post-test at the beginning and the end of the TBLT process. Before taking the post-test, the students went through four meetings to learn simple past tense using test-english.com in hybrid mode (face to face and virtual meetings). The null hypothesis is rejected at ρ ≤ 0.05. This suggests that there is a change in the 8th-grade students' pre- and post-test results on grammatical mastery (past tense) in SMP Katolik Wijana Jombang following the practice of task-based learning (TBLT) utilizing test-english.com.