THE EFFECTIVENESS OF POETRY THEORY TEXTBOOK WITH CONTEXTUAL APPROACH (RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMET IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY, SURAKARTA, CENTRAL JAVA, INDONESIA)

Abstract

The aims of the research are :1) to know the significant different in teaching and learning Poetry between the students taught using a textbook of Poetry theory and the students taught using another books, and 2) to know which group of students between those three groups that have better achievement in learning Poetry after a textbook of Poetry theory has been implemented in the classroom. The research applied was an Experimental research. There were three Universities which became the subject of the research. They were 1) English Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Slamet Riyadi University in Surakarta as an Experimental group; 2) English Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Bantara Nusantara Veteran University in Sukoharjo as a Control group, and 3) English Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Widya Dharma University in Klaten as a Control group. The research was conducted in eight meeting. In collecting the data, the researchers used observation, interview, and test. In analyzing the data, the researchers used One Way Anova. The research findings showed that: 1) There was significant difference between the students who taught using a textbook of Poetry theory and the students who taught without using a textbook of Poetry theory, and 2) the Experimental group showed a better achievement in learning Poetry than the Control groups. Besides that, a textbook of Poetry theory is an effective textbook to help students to learn Poetry easily in Introduction to Literature subject matter. It could be seen from the result of the research that the significance value was 0,00 where < 0,05 so it was more effective to use a textbook of Poetry theory.