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 YEAR STUDENTS AT SMPN 1 JENGGAWAH IN THE 2012/2013 ACADEMIC YEAR YEAR STUDENTS AT SMPN 1 JENGGAWAH IN THE 2012/2013 ACADEMIC

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SUMMARY 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 xiii 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 xiv 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.