TEACHING PREPOSITION BY USING ILLUSTRATION PICTURE AS THE MEDIA FOR THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF MTS HS WADASLINTANG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013

Abstract

Mastery of preposition is not an easy thing for students, especially for young learners. Therefore, the teacher needs to apply appropriate technique in his classroom. Using pictures in teaching preposition are appropriate technique to be applied in class because pictures are one kind of media that can help the teacher. This research is pre experimental quantitative research. Because the researcher uses saturated sampling, the population and the sample is same. There are 35 students taken from one class at the seventh grade students of MTs Hs Wadaslintang. In this research, the independent variable is the use of illustration picture and the dependent variable is preposition test score. The researcher uses test as instrument to get the data. To test the hypothesis, the researcher uses t-test. The result of the test from 35 students showed that the students’ preposition mastery is as follows: the mean score of pre test was 62.17 and the mean of post- test was 81.94. To test whether the hypothesis was accepted or rejected, the t-value was used and consulted to the t-table at the 0.05 significance level. It shows that the t-table was 1.691 and the t-value was 11.008 it means that t-value was higher than t-table (11.008>1.691). Therefore, it can be concluded that the use of illustration Picture as media for increasing preposition at the seventh grade students of MTs Hs Wadaslintang on the academic year 2012/2013 was effective.

Key word: Teaching, Preposition Mastery, Illustration Pictures