Improving Students’ Ability to Combine Sentence by Using Elliptical Construction Through Audio Lingual Method (Classroom Action Research at Third Grade Students in SMPN 9 Langsa)

The title of this research is improving students’ ability to combine sentence by using elliptical construction through audio lingual method at third grade students in SMPN 9 Langsa. Elliptical construction is a material has been learned by the students where the students have difficulties in combining sentence by using elliptical construction. Therefore, the writer will try to use a method as a technique in improving students’ ability about elliptical construction, it is audio lingual method. This research aimed to find out the improvement students’ ability to combine sentence by using elliptical construction through audio lingual method at the third grade students in SMPN 9 Langsa. The writer did this research to make the students more interesting and enjoy in learning elliptical construction. This research use Classroom Action Research (CAR) as the method. It is done by 2 cycles include; planning, action, observing, and reflecting. This research was take place at SMPN 9 Langsa and took the third grade, especially class IX-2. The class consists of 28 students. The instruments that used in this research were observation, interview, and test. Based on the research result, learning elliptical construction through audio lingual method made students more interested and enjoy. They looked enthusiast during the learning process. The result of pre-test shows that only 6 students (21.43%) who pass the Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal (KKM) score. In the cycle 1, the result of post-test 1 shows that 13 students (50%) who pass the KKM score and in the end of cycle 2, the result of post-test 2 shows that 24 students (88.89%) who pass the KKM score. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that audio lingual method can improve the students’ ability to combine sentence by using elliptical construction at SMPN 9 Langsa.