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The Effect of Using Roundtable Technique in Cooperative Language Learning
on Tense Achievement of the Eighth Year Students at SMPN 1 Jenggawah in the
2012/2013 Academic Year; Risca Ferdiana, 080210401030; 2013:49 Pages; English
Language Education Study Program, Language and Arts Department, The Faculty of
Teacher Training and Education, Jember University.
English tense is one of the language components of English that is very
important in learning English. It cannot be ignored because it is needed by the
students to master four language skills, namely: listening, speaking, reading, and
writing. Based on the result of the interview with the English teacher of SMPN 1
Jenggawah, many students have problems in learning English tenses. There are many
reasons that cause this problem. One of the reasons is the students do not have
motivation in learning English, especially the English tenses. Many students are
bored when they learn English tenses in the same situation, by using lecturing
method.
Therefore, to solve this problem, the English teacher has to find the
appropriate techniques to reduce the students’ boredom and to motivate the students
in learning English tenses. One of the techniques that can be used by the teacher is
Roundtable Technique in Cooperative Language Learning. Lan and Rapman
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The purpose of this research was to know whether or not there was a
significant effect of using Roundtable Technique in Cooperative Language Learning
on Tense Achievement of the Eighth Year Students at SMPN 1 Jenggawah in the
2012/2013 Academic Year. The area of this research was SMPN 1 Jenggawah which
was chosen purposively because the English teacher had never applied Roundtable
Technique in teaching English, especially in teaching English tenses. The population
of the research was the eighth year students of SMPN 1 Jenggawah in the 2012/2013
academic year which consisted of eight classes
There were two kinds of data in this research; they were the supporting data
and the primary data. The supporting data were got from the interview to the English
teacher of SMPN 1 Jenggawah and from the documentation of the list and the names
of the respondents
In this research, pre-experimental with non equivalent posttest-only design
was applied. In the first step, the researcher gave the homogeneity test to the eighth
year students at SMPN 1 Jenggawah. After the results of the homogeneity test were
analyzed, the result was homogeneous, the researcher took the respondents as the
experimental and the control groups by lottery. After that, the experimental group
was taught the English tenses
The result of the analysis of t-test showed that the value of significant column
of Lavene’s test was 0.013. It was lower than 0.05. Consequently, the row that must
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be read was the second row of t-test column. In t-test column, the value of significant
Based on the explanation above, it was concluded that there was a significant
effect of using Roundtable Technique on the eighth year students’ tense achievement
at SMPN 1 Jenggawah in the 2012/2013 academic year. | en_US |
