Teaching Preposition by using Ilustration picture as the Media for the First year students of MTs Hs Wadaslintang in Academic year 2012/2013

Abstract

English as an international language is used for communication in most activities and even in the world. In Indonesia, English is taught to the students of elementary, junior, senior, and even to university students as one of their subject. The research is conducted to find how effective of teaching preposition by using illustration pictures as the media for the first year students of Madrasah Tsanawiyah. This research was carried out at Madrasah Tsanawiyah Hidayatussibyan wadaslintang in three days on May 2013. The population of the study is seventh grade or the first year students. As the sample, the researcher used 35 students of population. The researcher used the satur ake sample. To collect the data, the researcher used t t as the instrument. There were pre-test and post-test. Pre-test was conducted before the researcher gave the treatment to the students. The type of test was easier t. Moreover, to analysis the data, the researcher used t-test formula. The objectives of this thesis are to find out whether there is any effectiveness or not teaching preposition by using illustration pictures as the media for the first year students of Mad ah Tsanawiyah Hidayatussibyan. The use of illustration pictures as media for aching preposition is a good way to be applied to improve the students’ preposition mastery. In applying illustration pictures, the teacher should prepare and illustration pictures, there are some kinds f prepositions that can be taught in the first year of Madrasah Tsanawiyah students such as the preposition in, on, and at, etc. In this thesis, the researcher only discusses the prepositions which indicate location, time, and position The result of data computation indicates that t-test is 11.008. It means that tscore of this study is higher than the t-va e on the t-table. The t-value on the table is 1.691. It means that the hypothesis is accepted. Using illustration pictures is effective in teaching English preposition to the first year students of Madrasah Tsanawiyah. The researcher hopes that result can be involved in education field. English teacher should pay-attention to the media and improve the media to stimulate the students in the reaching-learning process.