Thesis

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEAM GAMES TOURNAMENT (TGT) IN IMPROVING STUDENTS VOCABULARY BY USING VISUAL AIDS

(A Case Study at Modaputa English Course)*

The syllabus of Modaputa-English language course consisted of vocabulary mastery, therefore;  to encourage students mastering vocabulary, the teacher always applies cooperative learning method. Keeping students own adequate vocabulary, it needs a vary way to improve students’ vocabulary not only to memorize but also visualize it. It is assumed that applying different teaching technique to introduce the meaning of new words, using visual aids is good teaching techniques in which the teacher can apply in the cooperative learning process.

This research employed a mixed method design. It was a triangulation design. The design due to compare and contrast quantitative statistical results with qualitative findings. It applied questionnaires, classroom observations, interviews and achievement test to reveal the findings. The sample was 25 students which consisted of 15 people from SMP and 10 people from SMA and one teacher.

The study uncovers that Team Games Tournament (TGT) using visual aids is an effective way to encourage the students to improve their vocabulary and through the fun games make the students enthusiasm to attend the class at Modaputa-English Language Course Pangkajene Sidrap. This is due to the t-test values obtained were 4.826 and t-table was 2.064, degree freedom (df) n – 1 (24), at the 5% level of significance and 92.67 % of 25 students chose strongly positive and 7.33 % of the students chose positive statements toward TGT using visual aids in improving students’ vocabulary.

Key words: TGT, visual aids, vocabulary, students

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Thesis

THE STUDENT LEARNING SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT

(Case Studies on Different Levels of Two Students’ Academic
 Achievement at SD Negeri 5 Parepare)

The ability to manage the learning in the form of planning, implementation, monitoring, and assessment and also the roles of parents makes students who constantly obtain achievement and who do not at SD Negeri 5 Parepare. The objectives of this study were to examine (i) the planning of learning; (ii) the implementation of learning; (iii) supervision of learning; (iv) the evaluation of learning; and (v) the parents’ role on the successfulness of student learning both of the achievement one and lack of achievement one with involving three groups of subject of the study, namely; 1) students groups, 2) teachers group and 3) parents group. This study employed qualitative approach with a case study. Data were through interviews, observation and documentation study with the result revealed that: (i) Planning of student learning with the achievement one, MFH, was in the form of arranging learning schedule by sticking it to the notebook which was done by himself; whereas, the lack of achievement one, AFH,  was in the form of a poster by sticking it to the wall with help of the parents, (ii) The implementation of student learning with the achievement one was conducted by taking notes from the teacher's explanations and answering questions from the students’ book