The Effectiveness of Teaching Verbs by Using Cooperative Learning (A-Quasi Experimental Study at the Second Year Students of SMPN 169 Jakarta)
| Main Author: | Subhan, Ahmad |
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| Other Authors: | Kartowisastro, Sunardi .Dipl.Ed., Ertin, MA. TESOL. |
| Format: | Bachelors |
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FITK UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta
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| Online Access: |
http://repository.uinjkt.ac.id/dspace/handle/123456789/25324 |
Daftar Isi:
- Vocabulary is one of the English components which have four skills of English. Without having a large vocabulary, the students will not be able to write, to read, to listen or even to speak in English. A verb is a word which express actions or helps to make a sentence, because every sentence needs one verb or more. Verbs are also really needed for second year students of Junior High School. In fact, the students have some problems in understanding and memorizing the verbs. Many students did not know the meaning of the verbs and they did not know the changing of verbs, thus they often ask the verbs to their teacher or their friends because they still have limit vocabulary of regular and irregular verbs. Cooperative learning is a group of learning activity organized so that learning depends on the socially structure exchange of information between learners in groups and in which each learner is held accountable for his or her own learning and is motivated to increase the learning of others. Cooperative learning have some tecnhiques. One of the techniques that the teachers can use is Jigsaw. Jigsaw is one of the cooperative learning technique that uses task specialization to make individual students expert on a particular topic. Jigsaw is based on idea that each learner will become an expert in the group and they have to learn the material and teach to other learner in the home group. The objective of this research is to find out the empirical evidence whether cooperative learning is effective to improve the students in mastery the vocabulary of verbs at the second year students of 169 Junior High School Jakarta. The technique of collecting data used in this research are pre-test and posttest. Pre test was given before the writer implemented the cooperative learning, meanwhile post-test was given after four times of meetings. The writer used T-test in analyzing the data and he compared the score between the experiment class and controlled class. This technique is useful to know whether there is significant different between those two classes. From this research, the writer found (from statistic calculation) that the value of the to was 3.69 and the degree of freedom of (df) was 66. The writer used the degree of significance 5% in his research, and it can be seen that the degree of freedom is 66 and degree of significance is 1,99.