Andriyan Kusumawardhana, 2201406608 (2011) The Use of Adobe Flash Application as a Media to Improve Students’ Noun Phrases. Under Graduates thesis, universitas negeri semarang.

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ABSTRACT Kusumawardhana, Andriyan. 2010. The Use of Adobe Flash Application as a Media to Improve Students’ Noun Phrases.A case of year V students of SD Negeri 1 Kaliwinasuh in the Academic Year of 2009/2010. Final Project. English Department. Semarang State University. First Advisor: Drs. Ahmad Sofwan, Ph.D., Second Advisor: Widhianto, S.Pd., M.Pd. Key words: Noun Phrases, Flash Application, Experimental Study. This study is about the use of Noun Phrases Booster as the media in teaching Noun Phrases. The aim of this study is to describe the use of Noun Phrases Booster to teach Noun phrases to the year V students of SD Negeri 1 Kaliwinasuh and also to find out how well the use of Noun Phrases Booster as media in teaching Noun phrases gives a valuable contribution to the development of teaching this subject. In order to gather the data, the writer designed an experimental research. The population of this study was the year V students of SD Negeri 1 Kaliwinasuh. The numbers of the subjects were 30 students. There were six meetings in the research. One meeting was for the pre test. Four meetings were for the treatments and one meeting for the post test. Before a treatment was conducted, a pretest was given for the students. The activity of the pretest was the students were asked to answer some questions related to Noun Phrases. A post test was given after the treatments were done. Here, the students asked to answer the questions again. The result of this research showed that the post test score was better than the pre test score. The mean scores of the pre test was 65.5 and 78.5 in the post test. The different mean between the pre test and post test was 13. The result of applying t-test based on the different mean revealed that obtained value (2.6) was higher than the table value (1.699). It meant that there was a significant difference before and after the students were taught by using Noun Phrases Booster. Based on the result above, The teaching and learning activity by using Noun Phrase Booster showed a positive effect on the students’ achievement and Noun Phrases Booster is the effective media to improve students’ ability Noun Phrases. In this study, the writer suggests the teachers to use flash application as an alternative media to teach elementary school students, since students need enjoyable and not monotonous learning experiences. Then, for the next researcher, they could conduct deeper research by developing all various kinds of media in teaching Noun Phrases.

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