THE EFFECT OF USING CLOZE TEST IN LEARNING COMPARATIVE DEGREE AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF SMP INTEGRATED ISLAMIC IBNU SINA WULUHAN

Maulia Putri Hardanti, Dinda (2024) THE EFFECT OF USING CLOZE TEST IN LEARNING COMPARATIVE DEGREE AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF SMP INTEGRATED ISLAMIC IBNU SINA WULUHAN. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Dinda Maulia Putri Hardanti, 2024: The Effect of Using Cloze Test in
Learning Comparative Degree at The Eighth Grade of SMP Integrated Islamic
Ibnu Sina Wuluhan.
Key words: Comparative degree, cloze test

English language learning, as one of the important subjects in many countries, requires an effective approach to ensure good understanding by the
students. One of the important topics in English language learning is the mastery
of grammar, including the understanding of comparative degree. Comparison is
a basic concept used to compare two objects, situations or subjects in English.
Grammar is also regarded as an important element in language that becomes the
rules both spoken and written. Language learners who learn language cannot be
said that they have mastered the language without mastering grammar as the
language element. Based on the observations that the researcher made as an
English teacher in a subject, Indonesian students think that English is a difficult
subject because it has many differences with their mother tongue Indonesian.
For example, they have difficulties in learning adjective, in particular, they
have problems in understanding the comparative degree of adjectives, they have
problems in forming and making sentences of comparative degree.

The research questions of this research focused on “Is there any
significant effect of using cloze test in learning comparative degree at the eighth
grade of SMP Integrated Islamic Ibnu Sina Wuluhan? This research aims to
describe “To determine the effect of using cloze test in learning comparative
degree at the eighth grade of SMP Integrated Islamic Ibnu Sina Wuluhan.

This research uses a quantitative with Pre-experimental Design and the
type taken is One Group Pre-test Post-test Design. The experimental class was
given treatment using cloze test. The participants of this study were 8th grade
students of SMP Integrated Islamic Ibnu Sina Wuluhan, by taking a sample of
VIII class which amounted to 21 students with purposive sampling technique.
Data collection techniques used were observation pre-test, and post-test.

The result of this research showed that student understanding of
comparative degree in English from pre-test post-test. On the pre-test score was
42,86 and the score of students in post-test after taught by cloze test was an
increase in the average score of 88,80. Based on the interpretation results using
SPSS version 25 shows that the sig value (2-tailed) obtained is 0.000 <0.05,
meaning that Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. So that the conclusion is that
there is an effect of using the cloze test on comparative degree learning in eight
graders at SMP Integrated Islamic Ibnu Sina Wuluhan.

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