Abstract :
Grammar is a study of language and it emphasizes how the sentences are
structured. In teaching and learning grammar, learners and teacher find some
problems. Learners feel difficult in choosing appropriate verb, constructing
sentence and understanding grammatical rules. Then, teacher has problem in
applying appropriate strategy in teaching grammar. So, teacher needs alternative
strategy which can be used for teaching grammar and it must be supported by
experts. Based on some previous studies, consciousness raising strategy gave
positive impact for learners? skill such as speaking, listening, reading and writing.
Thus, for making different with previous studies, the researcher focused more
specific in the component of skill that was grammar as the component of writing.
This study was to investigate the significant effect of consciousness
raising strategy on English language learners? grammar achievement. The design
of this study was quasi experimental design. The population of this study was 10th
grade learners of SMA NU 1 GRESIK in academic year 2015/206 which totally
consisted of 362 learners. The researcher chose the sample of this study through
purposive sampling. It was divided into 37 learners of 10th Science 3 as
experimental group and 36 learners of 10th Science 1 as control group. The data
was collected from pre-test and post-test about simple past tense and present
perfect tense which totally consisted of 25 items for each test. After getting the
data, the researcher analyzed the data by using SPSS 17.0 program.
The research findings showed that there was significant difference
between learners in experimental group who were taught by using consciousness
raising strategy and learners in control group who were taught by using
presentation-practice-production. The researcher found that probability value of
both groups was 0,000. It was less than significance level 0,05 (0,000<0,05). It
means that consciousness raising strategy significantly influences learners?
grammar achievement. The researcher concluded that consciousness raising
strategy gave positive impact towards learners? grammar achievement. Learners
were more independent, they were motivated in learning grammar and they
understood the grammatical rules of simple past tense and present perfect tense.
The researcher suggests to the English teacher for implementing
consciousness raising strategy as an alternative method in teaching grammar.
Furthermore, learners must be confident in the classroom and they must have
good preparation in learning grammar. The researcher hopes that further research
can use this strategy in other components of skill beside grammar for making
different with previous studies