The Effectiveness of Students’ Tenses Ability Using a Self Organized Learning Environment Method

An Experimental Research of the Eighth Grade at Junior High School

Abstract

The ability to use tense is very important in learning the structure of language in spoken and written forms. there are still many students who have difficulty to make appropriate sentences according to tense, and difficulty distinguishing simple present, simple past, present perfect, and future sentences. The purpose of this study was to find out how the effect of students' tenses using the self-organized learning environment method at class VIII SMP in Pandeglang, Researchers use quantitative research by applying a true experimental design to conduct research. The population of this study was made up of students in class VIII at SMP Negeri in Pandeglang. Samples were selected by cluster random sampling. Each classroom consists of 30 students. In collecting data, researchers conducted observations and tests (pre-test and post-test). The study had been done in five meetings that were designed: the first meeting was for the pre-test, three meetings were for treatments, and the last meeting was for the post-test. In analyzing the data, researchers used the t-test. The calculation results show that with a significance degree of 5% and 58 degrees of freedom, tcount (2.316) is greater than ttable (1.672). This means that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected. It can also be seen that the average value of the experimental class is higher than the control class. It can be concluded that the self-organized learning environment method is effective in exploring the tenses abilities of Grade VIII students of junior high schools in Pandeglang.