Using Personalized Monopoly Board Games to Improve Students' Comprehension in Forming Comparatives and Superlatives

Abstract

From a writing test done in the previous academic year, it was identified that students generally showed lack of understanding on the comparatives and superlatives form of adjectives. Students often mixed up and put them in wrong contexts. From the teacher’s reflection, it was found out that a more creative and active learning environment is needed to enhance the learning of comparatives and superlatives. Thus, the lesson was then improvised with the use of board games to promote active learning. This quasi experimental study was conducted to examine the effect of board games in forming the comparatives and superlatives. About 80 participants from SMP Bruder Pontianak were involved in this study. Finding showed positive result in the student’s achievement: 75% of the respondents in treatment group obtained better score compared to their pre-test results. Students also showed good responses toward its implementation. In conclusion, teaching comparatives and superlatives is effective to improve student’s understanding.Keywords: Monopoly board game, comparatives and superlatives, adjectives