Teaching Present Continuous Tense To The Seventh Grade Students At The SMPN 10 Palu Through Audio Visual Short Dialogue

The students mastery of English at the seventh grade of SMPN 10 Palu is still low, especially in present continuous tense. Therefore there should be some of tools to overcome the problems which is the use of audio visual short dialogue. The purpose of this research is find out whether the use of audio visual short dialogue can improve students ability in mastering present continuous tense or not at the seventh grade of SMPN 10 Palu. The population of this research were all seventh-grade students of SMP
10 Palu, the sample of this research is 20 students. The research emploed pre�experimental design. In the experimental class, the researcher used audio visual
and short dialogue. In collecting data, the researcher used an instrument in the form of multiple choice and matching test. From the result of the research the researcher found the results of the pre test 66,5 the results of the post test 83,5.