with the rule discovery; this could enhance learning autonomy and
self-reliance consuming as it leads learners to
have the appropriate concept of the rule.
Learners’ greater
degree of
cognitive depth is “exploited”. The concepts given implicitly
may lead the learners to have the wrong concepts of the rule taught.
The learners are more active in the learning process, rather than
being simply passive recipients. In this
activity, they
will be
motivated. The technique can place emphasis
on teachers in planning a lesson.
The technique involves learners’ pattern-recognition and problem
solving abilities
in which
particular learners are interested in this challenge.
It encourages the teacher to design
the material
taught carefully and systematically.
If the problem-solving activity is done collaboratively, learners get
an opportunity for extra language practice.
The technique may frustrate the learners
with their
personal learning style or their past
learning experience or both would prefer simply to be told the
rule.
C. Previous Studies
This study is related to other study conducted by Afriani
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with her skripsi entitled The Effectiveness of Teaching Degrees of Comparison
through Picture conducted in 2012. Her skripsi was conducted at SMP Al- Hasra. It is conducted to find out the empirical evidence whether there is
18
Dia Eliza Afriani, “The Effectiveness of Teaching Degrees of Comparison through Pictures”, Skripsi at UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, 2012, unpublished.
any significant differences between students’ achievement in learning the degrees of comparison through pictures or not. She used experimental
method and the result showed that the t-observation t
o =
3.33 was higher than t-table t
t
= 2.05. It concluded that there is a significant difference between students’ achievement in learning degrees of comparison through
picture. The second study is conducted by Fuadah
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with the title The Comparative Study of Using Deductive and Inductive Techniques in
Teaching the Present Continuous Tense A Case Study in Mts. Syafi’iyah Pulorejo Ngoro Jombang East Java. It was conducted in 2007. She
conducted this study to find out whether there is a significant difference between teaching present continuous tense deductively and inductively.
The population of the study was 60 students and she used random sampling system. Therefore, she only took 40 students for both of
experimental and controlled classes. The result of this study showed that t
o
was lower than t
t
in significant level 5 2.02 and significant level 1 2.71 where t
o
was 1.73. It is concluded that the use of inductive and deductive technique and in teaching present continuous tense do not have
any significant difference to students’ achievement in learning present continuous tense.
The last study related to this study is
The Application of Cooperative Learning in Teaching Degrees of Comparison An Experimental Study of Second
Year Students at MTS Attaqwa 02 Bekasi conducted by
Salwa
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. The purpose of her study is to know the effectiveness of cooperative learning in
teaching degrees of comparison. It took the same material as Afriani took but she used other teaching technique. In this study, Salwa used total-
population sampling. It means she used all of the population as the sample in her study. In this study, she found that the mean score of post-test of
19
Zakiyatul Fuadah, “The Comparative Study of Using Deductive and Inductive Techniques in Teaching the Present Continuous Tense”, Skripsi at UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, 2007,
unpublished.
20
Siti Salwa, “The Application of Cooperative Learning in Teaching Degrees of Comparison”, Skripsi at UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, 2009, unpublished.
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
