THE INFLUENCE OF THE APPLICATION OF INQUIRY
METHOD ON STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN LEARNING
RELATIVE PRONOUN AT THE ELEVENTH CLASS
STUDENTS OF MA AL-ISHLAH BOBOS
IIS PURNAMA LESTARI: THE INFLUENCE OF THE APPLICATION
OF INQUIRY METHOD ON STUDENTS’
ABILITY IN LEARNING RELATIVE
PRONOUN AT THE ELEVENTH CLASS
STUDENTS OF MA AL-ISHLAH BOBOS
English is a language that is learnt by people of non-English native
speakers around the world. In Indonesia, English is a school subject that must be
learnt by the students of the elementary schools up to the universities. And, it is
also coming up in the national examination. It means that English plays a very
important role in the country. To master English, the students must improve the
skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, with having the good
knowledge of vocabulary and the rules of a language (grammar). In this case, the
writer only discusses about the rules of a language (grammar) especially, relative
pronoun by using inquiry method.
The formulation of the problem in this thesis is divided into four parts
namely, the identification of the problem, the limitation of the problem, the
questions of the research, and the aims of the research. In this case, the writer
discusses about the application of inquiry method on students’ ability in learning
relative pronoun.
The aims of the research in writing this thesis are as follows: to know the
students’ response of using inquiry method, to know the students’ ability in
learning relative pronoun, and to know the influence of inquiry method on the
students’ ability in learning relative pronoun.
The techniques of collecting data in writing this thesis are as follows:
observation, test, and questionnaire. In this thesis, the writer chooses MA Al-
Ishlah Bobos as the object of the research. The total population at the eleventh
class is 56 students, it is classified into two classes namely XI-IPA and XI-IPS;
XI-IPA is 30 students and XI-IPS is 26 students. And for a sample, the writer
takes all of students at XI-IPA. So, the sample is 30 students.
There are three important elements found in this thesis. First, the students’
response towards inquiry method have good categorized, the point is 80.8. The
second is the students’ ability in learning relative pronoun, the point is 81.8. The
influence is enough or sufficient between two variables because the result of
correlation coefficient is 0.63. The third is the application of inquiry method give
contribution toward the students’ ability in learning relative pronoun as big as
78% and 22% is determined by other factors. And response towards using inquiry
method is influence positively, it is supported by the value tcount (4.3) > ttable
(2.048). It means that, Ha is accepted and Ho is refused