Abstract:
The objective of the study is to know whether colourful word cards is
effective or not in teaching w-h question to ninth grade Students Of Madrasah
Tsanawiyah Tarbiyatul ‘Ulum Kebumen in The Academic Year 2014.
This study is experimental research and the population of this study is the
Ninth Grade Students Of Madrasah Tsanawiyah Tarbiyatul ‘Ulum Kebumen in
The Academic Year 2013/2014. There are two classes consisting of 68 students of
the ninth grade. The researcher took all classes, each class contains 34 students,
all of them are sample. The researcher administered objective test. To get the data,
the researcher held pre -test and post- test to both of class. Both of the test were in
multiple choice form and each test contains 30 numbers. The instrument used for
measuring the improving students’ understanding in w-h question. The researcher
taught w-h question using colourful word cards to the experimental group and
taught w-h question without colourful word cards to the control group.
The result of this research showed that colourful word card is effective in
teaching w-h question. The researcher used t-test to compute the data. The result
of the computation of the t-value was 5.6. The obtained t-table at 0.05 significance
levels was 1.962. It means that the result of the research obtained from the
computation was greater than its critical value. Therefore, the researcher
concluded that colourful words card was effective to teach w-h question. In line
with the result of the result, the researcher suggests that to improve the students’
understanding in w-h question, students can use colourful word cards in learning
process. It is essential to the teacher to know that using media in teaching learning
process helps the students to understand the material.
