p–ISSN 2614-6320 Volume 2, No. 3, May 2019 e–ISSN 2614-6258 Improving Grammar Skill Using Egra Technique For The Students’ Eighth Grade At Smpn 5 Cimahi |325 IMPROVING GRAMMAR SKILL USING EGRA TECHNIQUE FOR THE STUDENTS’ EIGHTH GRADE AT SMPN 5 CIMAHI Mayang Kusumastuti 1 , Mega Pratiwi 2 , Hendra Husnussalam 3 1 IKIP Siliwangi 2 IKIP Siliwangi 3 IKIP Siliwangi 1 mayangksm@gmail.com, 2 pratiwim397@gmail.com, 3 hendrahusnussalam@ikipsiliwangi.ac.id Abstract Grammar is one part to improve four skills that we also known. To enhance grammar skill we have to prefer the accurately method as a way in studying grammar. The researcher was chosen Exposure, Generalization, Reinforcement, and Application (EGRA) technique as a method to teaching English grammar to students’ eigtht grade at SMPN 5 Cimahi. It was arranged with using pre-experimental method, peculiarly one-group pre-test post-test design. The technique showed that can develop grammar skill students’. The average score of the test result is 40,83 for the pre-test and 71,70 for the post-test. From the result, it can determine that EGRA technique can improve grammar skill students’. Besides that, EGRA technique can build a good team work in the classroom. Keywords: Grammar, Present Continuous Tense, EGRA Technique INTRODUCTION English becomes international language to unite the world. In the era of globalization, learning English is very important because English able for linking and make easily people in the most of countries are communicated each other based on the development in the field of economic, business, education and also politic, Parmawati (2018). It applies to interact each other, peculiarly with the foreigners. In building a good communication we should understand the rules of the way to interact. To attain that goal we necessary to dominate some prevalent skills as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In addition those skills we must master spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar as the basis for accomplishing each skill. Prior to mastering four skills, the students’ have to master the rules in using English language. The rules in language are called grammar. Grammar is the highest important thing in all skills because it has a role as a root to development our skills. According to Haussamen, Benjamin, Kolln, & Wheeler (2003) grammar is the skunk at the garden party of the language arts. It means that grammar is an art for that language itself. It is supported by Ismail (2010, as cited in Apsari, 2018) that grammar plays a significant role in communication since it shows how language is used. For the students’ Junior High School level, learning English grammar will be more difficult to learn. In particular learning tenses, due to it has varieties of them. Besides the material, the way to deliver the lesson very extremely in influencing how the students’ can learn and understand the lesson.