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The Effectiveness of Cognitive Linguistics Strategy in Teaching Prepositions at MAN 4 Kediri
Many cases of students can not distinguish the same prepositions for different meanings. So far, the strategy commonly employed by teachers is teaching the multiple senses of prepositions by rote strategy. The students show rather low learning achievements and have to repeat the correct sentence over and over again. Then, new findings called Cognitive Linguistics (CL) proposed by Song (2013) suggest different strategy in teaching prepositions. The objective of this research is to find out whether using Cognitive Linguistics (CL) strategy is effective in teaching the target prepositions at MAN 4 Kediri.
The study was a quasi experimental design by applying two group, pre-test and post-test design. The sampling was randomized sampling. The subjects of the study were XI MIA 2 as experimental group and XI MIA 1 as control group. The experimental group was taught by using CL strategy, while the control group was taught by using rote learning strategy. The instruments used were the tests. They were pre-test and post-test and the data calculated by using ANCOVA through SPSS 21.
The findings reveal the mean score of the pre-test of the experimental group was 15.09 and control group was 14.97, and the mean score of the post-test of the experimental group and control group, were 19.41 and 16.71, respectively. Then, the result of ANCOVA shows that the significant value is less than 0.05, as evidence by p (0.000) a (0.05). Statistically, there was enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis and accept the alternative hypothesis. The hypothesis "the students who were taught by using the CL strategy would have better achievement than the students who were taught by using rote learning strategy" is accepted. It means that the studer who were taught by using CL strategy got better achievement than the students who were taught by using rote learning strategy. In short, the use of CL strategy is effective in teaching prepositions.
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