Electronic Theses and Dissertation

The purpose of this study is to find out whether there is a significant difference between the third year students of smpn i and the third year students of mtsn i simpang tiga redelong in mastering comparison of adjective or not. in other words, the writer wants to know which students are better in mastering comparison of adjective. the population of this study are the third year students of smpn i and the third year students of mtsn i simpang tiga redelong. the samples of mtsn i simpang tiga redelong is class ii which consists of the thirty students, and the samples of smpn i simpang tiga redelong is class iii,also consist of thirty students. every student has to answer forty questions which divided in four parts, they are 20 questions of multiple of choice, ten questions of completing sentences, five of changing adjective to comparative and superlative and combining sentences in positive form (using as...as). if a student could answer all questions correctly, she/he would get score one hundred. in finding result, the writer used statistical procedures. first, she used mean score and sums square formula. the mean score of mtsn i simpang tiga redelong is 57,25 and the mean score of smpn i simpang tiga redelong is 53,6. then, the writer used t-score formula in order to know whether there is a difference between the third year students of smpn simpang tiga redelong and the third year students of mtsn i simpang tiga redelong in mastering comparison of adjective. after calculating the data to t-score formula, it is obtained that t-count is 0,79. the writer used the t-distribution table to see if t- count is bigger than t-table or instead. the writer used 0,05 (5%) the level of significance in 58 degree of freedom. t-count is 0, 79 and t-table for 58 degree of freedom in level of 0,05 is 2,9.i shows that t-count is smaller than t-table and it means that there is no significant different between the third year students of smpn i and the third year students of mtsn i simpang tiga redelong in mastering comparison of adjective.