THE EFFECT OF USING POCKET CHART ON THE SEVENTH YEAR STUDENTS’ TENSE ABILITY IN THE CONTEXT OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT SMPN 3 BANGSALSARI – JEMBER IN THE 2012/2013 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

This research was intended to investigate the effect of using Pocket Chart on the seventh year students’ tense ability in the context of descriptive text at SMPN 3 Bangsalsari-Jember in the 2012/2013 academic year. It was conducted in SMPN 3 Bangsasari-Jember. The population of this research was all of the seventh year students of SMPN 3 Bangsalsari-Jember in the 2012/2013 academic year. The research respondents were determined by homogeneity test (a tense test covering Simple Present Tense). The number of the respondents was 66 students, consisting of 32 students of grade VII-C as the experimental group that was taught tense by using Pocket Chart, and 34 students of VII-B as the control group, that was taught tense by using lecturing and giving exercises techniques. The primary data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of tense test. The primary data were collected from the post-test to compare tense achievement of the two different groups after treatment, and then the researcher analyzed the result of the test by using Independent sample T-Test (SPSS). Based on the calculation, the result of this research showed that there was a significant effect of using Pocket Chart on the seventh year students’ tense ability in the context of descriptive text. It was proved by the value of significant column of t-test table by using SPSS sofware, and the result was 0.045 which was lower than 0.05 (significant level of 5%). This means that the null hypothesis (H ) formulated: “Pocket Chart does not have an effect on the seventh year students’ tense ability on the context of

viii 0 descriptive text at SMPN 3 Bangsalsari Jember in the 2012/2013 academic year” was rejected, thus the alternative hypothesis: “Pocket Chart has a significant effect on the seventh year students’ tense ability in the context of descriptive text at SMPN 3 Bangsalsari-Jember on the 2012/2013 academic year” was accepted. The research results proved that there was a significant effect of using Pocket Chart on the seventh year students’ tense ability in the context of descriftive text at SMPN 3 Bangsalsari Jember in the 2012/2013 academic year. Therefore, it is recommended for the English teacher to use Pocket Chart as teaching media in teaching tenses.