THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR ACHIEVEMENT OF GRADE NINE STUDENTS USING AN INDUCTIVE LEARNING WORKBOOK WITH INFOGRAPHICS AT JOAN OF ARC SCHOOL

Abstract

This research aimed to develop grade nine students’ English grammar achievement through an inductive learning workbook with infographics at Joan of Arc School and investigate their opinion toward the instruction. The participants were 14 grade nine students at Joan of Arc School. The research instruments were an inductive learning workbook with infographics, a pre and /post-test, and an opinion questionnaire. During the research process, the instruction started from reviewing a past lesson, studying examples in an infographic, finding grammar rules from the examples, summarizing the rules, and working on an exercise in the workbook. Also, the statistical treatment was dependent sample t-test, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and p-value. The results revealed that (1) their post-test score was significantly higher than their pre-test score at 0.01 level and (2) they had positive opinion towards the use of an inductive learning workbook with infographics and the overall attitude was rated at 4.56 or “very satisfied”. It could be reflected that this instructional innovation was of a good contribution to the participants’ English grammar improvement because a student-centered approach was employed, and it facilitated self-directed learning.