11. The teacher gave multiple choice exercise which was intended to ask the
students to apply the regular and irregular verbs in the sentence correctly. The activity is adapted from Hughes 2003:182
2.9 Students’ Active Participation
Students’ active participation was the students’ interest in taking a part in the teaching and learning process by showing the positive responses. As Arikounto
2010:143 states, in every learning the students are hoped to pay attention and do what the teacher explain to them. In addition, when the students are active means that
they are learning. The more active the students, the more effective teaching and learning process will be. The more effective teaching and learning process, the easier
the objectives of teaching and learning can be achieved. Accordingly, the students’
participation can support the students achievement, so it is important to be observed. To observe the students’ active participation, the researcher determines four
indicators should be showed by the students during teaching and learning process. The indicators were used as the
students’ affective as well. The indicators covered 1 paying attention to the teacher while showing a picture file, 2 mentioning regular or
irregular verbs and the meanings based on the pictures shown 3 doing the exercises enthusiastically by using the picture file, 4 discussing the answers with the teacher
actively. The indicators were used to categorize the active and the passive students. The active students are the students who could show at least three indicators, and the
passive ones were the students who could show less than three indicators.
2.10 Research Hypothesis
According to the review of related literature above, the action hypotheses of this research can be formulated as follows:
1. The use of a picture file can improve VIII C grade students’ active
participation in teaching and learning process of regular and irregular verbs in recount text at MTs N 1 Jember in 20142015 Academic Year
2. The use of a picture file can improve VIII C grade students’ achievement on
regular and irregular verbs in recount text at MTs N 1 Jember in 20142015 Academic Year
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