Adapting Tahfidz Technique in Learning English for Pesantren Students

Abstract

This study is to discover whether adapting the tahfidz technique to memorize words, phrases, and sentences can be applied in learning English for pesantren students (santri). The tahfidz technique used was talaqqi, which is delivering students’ memorization to teachers, to make students easier in remembering the learning materials. A pre-experimental study with a one-group pre-test and post-test design is conducted in this research to analyze the participant of 40 students in first grade in MA Pondok Tremas, Pacitan. The instrument used in this research is a pre-test from some verses of the Quran and a post-test from Arabic mahfudzat. By adapting the tahfidz technique in learning English, the teacher’s goal to gain students’ better scores in English had been achieved. This is closely related to the fact that pesantren students familiarized to memorize Qur’an and their religious subject. It turns out that the traditional pesantren learning method can also be applied to modern science.