The Effect of Using Indirect Method on the Students’ Grammar Achievement at SMP Plus Darus Sholah

Abstract

This experimental research was conducted to investigate the effect of using Indirect Method on the students’ grammar achievement, especially on the use of simple past tense. This research was conducted in SMP Plus Darus Sholah, Jember. The population of this research was all the 8th grade students. The research participants (the experimental and the control groups) were selected based on the results of the homogeneity test. Based on the results of the homogeneity test, the population was heterogeneous. Therefore, the experimental and the control groups were chosen based on two classes that had the closest mean difference. As the result, 29 students of class VIII F and 31 students of class VIII C were chosen as the participants of this research. The students in the experimental group were taught simple past tense by using Indirect Method while the students in the control group were taught simple past tense by using Direct Method. After the treatments were carried out, the researcher administered the post test to measure the students’ grammar achievement, especially on simple past tense. The post test results were analyzed by using Independent sample t-test in the SPSS computing system to find the mean difference between two groups. Based on the data analysis, the significant value was 0.03 which was lower than 0.05. This means that there was a significant difference between the experimantal and the control groups. Finally, the researcher would like to give some suggestions to the English teachers and the future researchers. Since it was proved that there was a significant effect of using Indirect Method to teach grammar, especially on simple past tense, the English teachers are advised to teach grammar, especially on tenses by using Indirect Method. Furthermore, the future researchers are advised to conduct a further research with the similar topic either in a different skill, area or design. However, due to the limitation of this research the future researchers are suggested to construct more items for the test, so that the future researchers have more options in choosing the test items.