Dahliah
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Peer tutoring is the system of instruction in which learners help each other
and learn by teaching. Tutoring schemes, known variously as Peer Tutoring,
Cross-Age Tutoring, Youth Tutoring Youth, and Each One Teach One, have used
students to teach students, students to teach children, non-professional adults to
teach adults and children, and children to teach children. In peer tutoring students
work in small group consists of five to six students that are mixed in performance
level, gender and ethnicity. It is assumed that peer tutoring gives better
performance for students in learning vocabulary.
The aims of this research are to know the effectiveness of teaching
vocabulary by using Peer Tutor, and to know the difference in students’
achievement between the students who were taught by using Peer tutoring method
and who were taught without Peer Tutoring method.
This research used quantitative approach. It was held on 23rd July until 6th
August 2010. The population used in this research is the students of the sixth
grade of SDN. KAUMPANDAK 02. The technique sampling used two groups’
namely experimental group and control group which is VI-A as experiment group
which consists of 25 students and VI-B as control group which consists of 25
students. Besides, the techniques used to collect data are: observe some theories
and articles from library, browses from the internet, and post test.
After doing the research, the writer found that the vocabulary of the
students who were taught by using peer tutoring method was better than those
who were taught without using it. It is proven by the result of mean between the
groups who are using peer tutoring method or experiment group is 8.01, and the
mean of control group without peer tutoring method is 6.20. In addition, teaching
vocabulary using peer tutoring method was more effective than teaching without
it. It is proven by the significant difference of vocabulary achievement between
the students who were taught by using peer tutoring method and those who were
taught without peer tutoring method where the result of t-observed is higher than
t-table (5.84 > 2,797) in the degree of freedom 48 and in the level of significant
1% (0.01).