experimental class was 79.46 and the controlled class was 68.13. It was proven that there is significant difference in students’ score between
learning degrees of comparison using cooperative learning and without cooperative learning.
From all of the previous studies above, the writer will conduct about teaching degrees of comparison like Salwa and Afriani did but in this study, the
writer will use different technique in teaching degrees of comparison. The writer will teach degrees of comparison by using inductive technique like Fuadah did in
her study. The writer will teach the degrees of comparison to the eighth grade students of SMPIT Cordova.
D. Hypotheses of the Study
In this research, the writer proposes null hypothesis Ho and alternative hypothesis Ha:
Ho : “There is no significant difference of students’ mastery of degrees of comparison achievement between students who are taught by inductive
technique and students who are taught without inductive technique. Ha : “There is a significant difference of students’ mastery of degrees of
comparison achievement between students who are taught by inductive technique and students who are taught without inductive technique.
CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Degrees of Comparison 1. Definitions of Degrees of Comparison
Before exploring of degrees of comparison, the writer would like to explain what comparison is. One of the most basic and powerful of human
cognitive process is the ability to comprehend and express the fact that two things are similar or different. Often, such similarity or difference is expressed in terms
of degree, extent, or quantity.
1
Betty Schrampfer Azar said that comparison is the method by which an adjective or adverb expresses a greeter or less degree of the
same quality.
2
It is in accordance with what Marcel Danesi said in his book. He said that the function of comparison is to indicate that something or someone has
a relatively equal, greater, or lesser, degree of some quality or feature.
3
In other words, comparison is to compare a quality of something to something else. It
means comparison is a process of comparing people, things, or places through the level of quality, quantity, or relation.
Comparison can be used for adverb and adjective. Comparison used for adverb is to compare the manner of verb itself meanwhile comparison used for
adjective is to compare the quality of noun itself. It describes the relational value of an adjective or adjectival expression. Comparison of adjective is the
modification of an adjective to denote the different level of quality, quantity, or relation. Therefore, comparison is the most important English construction which
is used to express similarities or differences of degree or extent. In this study, the writer focused on comparison of adjective or degrees of comparison.
1
Marianne Celce-Murcia and Dianne Larsen-Freeman, The Grammar Book. An ESL EFL Teacher’s Course. 2
nd
ed, USA: Heinle and Heinle Publishers, Inc., 1999, p. 717.
2
Betty Schrampfer Azar, A Reference Grammar Understanding and Using English Grammar, New York: Pearson Education Longman, 1993, p. 91.
3
Marcel Danesi, Basic American Grammar and Usage: an ESLEFL Handbook, New York: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 2006, p. 71.
