The Use of Pelmanism Technique In Increasing Foreign Learners' Grammar Ability
This paper provides the Pelmanism technique which can be used by the teachers to make their students enjoyable in learning grammar. Pelmanism is a matching card which is challenged by hiding the cards’ face. Using Pelmanism in teaching grammar can be done by giving the students a pack of cards that contained of sentence to the grammar’s topic. The teacher spread the cards face down on the table and then the students try to match the sentences with the appropriate grammar (Case: 2009). This paper aims at finding out the students’ improvement in grammar especially for Subject Verb Agreement by using Pelmanism technique, it is expected to change the students’ way of study from passive to be active and expected to be an effort of changing the classroom atmosphere and to provide useful contribution to the teachers to activate and organize students’ prior knowledge. In this study aim, the researcher applied the experimental research which used the Quasi Experimental method with two classes pretest-posttest design with two groups; experimental group and control group that consisted of 27 students for each group of the eight grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Balusu Barru. The researcher used grammar test of SVA and questionnaire in collecting data. The result of the research showed that after applying Pelmanism technique, the students had good improvement. It was clear that the treatments which were done in experimental group had gone well and the students were felt interested in learning grammar of SVA by using Pelmanism technique. Thus, the researcher concluded that Pelmanism technique could increase the students’ grammar ability of SVA of the eight grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Balusu Barru.