The Disadvantages REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

4. Help to promote positive competition. In NHT class, there is positive competition among teams. Every team will do their best to get maximum score for their team. 5. The smarter students can help hisher friends because every team consists of high, intermediate, and low achievers so that there will be learning atmosphere within the team. The smart students or high achievers should help their friends learn the materials.

b. The Disadvantages

Beside its advantages, NHT technique also has some disadvantages. The researcher found some disadvantages of using NHT technique when he taught tenses using NHT technique. The first disadvantage is the problem of forming teams by the teacher. The teacher should make teams consisting of four students with equal in the range of student ability high, intermediate, and low achievers. However, the students usually want to form groups with their best friends. When the researcher formed the teams equally in the range of the students‟ ability, many students rejected the teams that the researcher had formed. To overcome this problem, the researcher asked for help to the English teacher of SMPN 2 Balung, Jember, to assure the students that the teams formed by the researcher were the best teams. Then, the problem was solved. Another problem that may arise is the noise caused by the students while they are discussing the answer of the question posed by the teacher. Children usually make noise when they are in the process of the discussion. The researcher experienced that the students were very noisy when they were discussing the problems. To overcome this problem, the researcher, helped by one of his friends, monitored each team to keep them discussing the answers of the problems seriously and silently. Discussing the answers of the problems http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id silently was very important to keep other teams from overhearing. Then, the problem was also solved. 2.3 Tenses 2.3.1 The Meaning of Tenses