IMPLEMENTING A STUDENT PORTFOLIO IN A GRAMMAR CLASS IN COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH

Abstract

A portfolio is a collection of student work with a common theme or purpose.

Teaching grammar by using a student portfolio is to help students find and retrieve course materials organizing their materials into a portfolio let students have a ready reference from which they could track their own progress and see their own areas of strength or consistent weakness. A grammar-writing course provides an excellent situation in which students can learn both about the roles or patterns of English grammar and applying those roles or patterns in writing  context. The purpose of the study is to know the effectiveness of teaching grammar by a student portfolio  get  better achievement  in  grammar. Grammar in writing context  as communicative approach also could encourage students to use the forms in expressing their own content and to help students see the usefulness of what they have learned  (Weaver:1996).

This study has been conducted to determine the effectiveness of  teaching grammar by implementing a student portfolio.  The general question  to answer is ,” Do the students taught by using writing context as task based  approach gain  better achievement in learning grammar than those  taught   by using pattern exercise drills?” The design of the study was quasi experiment with non randomized pretest-posttest group. The samples of the study were taken from the population of the fourth semester of student STKIP PGRI Jombang in 2011/2012 in academic year. To test hypothesis is used Ancova Statistics. The result of this research based fom Ancova Analysis is that the null hypothesis is rejected and alternative hypothesis is accepted. Therefore it could be concluded that students taught grammar by  using portfolio gain better achievement than those taught in pattern practice drills.