III. few mispronunciation; occasional problems with communication
IV. few mispronunciation; no interfere with communication
V. no mispronunciation; communication with ease
Blaz 2001: 39 Hughes 1989: 111-112
6. The Previous Research
There are so many previous researches that have proved to us whether the use of Dictation is really effective to be applied in the classroom. Julia Read, an
Indonesian teacher who worked at University of England has applied this technique to teach Indonesian language to her foreign students. She prefers this
technique, after observing many phenomenon that happened to language teachers. One of the phenomenon is when a teacher has taught a grammatical point, and the
students have understood it, they don’t apply the grammatical point the next time they speak or write productively. Therefore, by using this technique, it is hoped
that the grammatical point can be applied into communicative context.
Colleen Maloney-Berman from SUNY Buffalo reports that his previous research using Dictogloss has shown the effectiveness of this technique in raising
elementary school immersion students’ awareness of linguistic elements while reproducing content-related
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Kowal and Swain 1994:25 conclude that Dictogloss provided a successful vehicle for encouraging their students to create meaning and to process
language syntactically. Klein 1986 also comments that: PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
Learners learn by comparing their own output with what others produces, thereby developing an awareness of their language
performance and its discrepancy with others.
B. Theoretical Framework
In this research, the researcher tries to evaluate the use of Dictogloss as a technique in teaching grammar to the first grade students of SMK Bopkri I
Yogyakarta . The researcher tries to investigate whether or not Dictogloss as a
technique has a positive effect to enhance the students’ mastery of simple past tense. There are some considerations in applying this technique, first because it is
a relatively simple one, second because it can help the students to learn from context and the third because it suits to the learners’ age.
Since language is used for communication, students sho uld not only know about the knowledge of language rules, but also are able to use the knowledge for
communication. As we know that many learners are able to give explanation of a grammatical rule or principle from the standard textbook, but then violate the rule
when using language communicatively. For example, there is a student who is
able to tell his friend to put an s at the end of the verb when making third person
singular declarative statement, but when he makes such statement, he leaves off
the s.
The first grade of vocational high school students is the basic step or good step for both the teacher and the students. It is an appropriate step for the teacher
to fix students’ misconception or mistake in learning English, especially grammar. So that, when the students face final examination they have already
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