The Effect of Picture-Cued Task to Improve Students’ Understanding in Degree of Comparison at SMPN 1 Candi Sidoarjo

Learning English especially grammar is difficult because grammar has confusing rules to learn and has different pattern from students mother language, many of students have problem in using degrees of comparison, especially in comparative and superlative forms. The purpose of this research is to find an alternative way and suitable method to help students learn grammar, especially in using degree of comparison through picture-cued. The method that used in this research is quasi experimental research which compare two classes in SMP Negeri 1 Candi Sidoarjo Sidoarjo. The first class as experimental class which ware taught degree of comparison using picture-cued and second class as control class thought degree of comparison thought using conventional teaching method. The researcher gives pre-test first than gives treatment and the last the researcher gives post-test. The data collected and counted using t-test formula. The result of t-test was 5.57 and t-table at significance 5% was 1.9983. Thus, t-test (t_0 = 5.57) was higher than t table (t_t 5% = 1.993). It can be said that picture-cued has an effect for students’ understanding in degree of comparison. Eta-squared was 0.30 which means there is significant effect. Based on the data analysis, it was proved the picture-cued could gave an effect to the students understanding in degree of comparison and the effect was significant or large