Abstract
The obejectives of this research are to know the improvement of the students’ achievement in poetry mastery and their perception regarding to the semiotic method in teaching and learning poetry in English Education Department, Languages and Art Faculty of State University of Medan. The research method used is the Classroom Action Research (CAR). The subjects of the research are the fifth semester of 37 students of 2013/2014 academic year. The data are collected by test in order to know the students’ achievment in poetry mastery. The students’ perception toward the implementation of the semiotic method for teaching and learning poetry is collected by questionaire. The data are analyzed by descriptive analysis. The result of research shows that (1) the average score of the students’ achievement of poetry mastery is (71.75) or it increases (11,59) point from pre-test (60.16) and (2) in general, the students’ perception toward the semiotic method for teaching and learning poetry are good and positive.
Highlights
It is generally known that to understand the meaning of poetry is truly difficult to do for the students and the lecturers as well
The obejectives of this research are to know the improvement of the students’ achievement in poetry mastery and their perception regarding to the semiotic method in teaching and learning poetry in English Education Department, Languages and Art Faculty of State University of Medan
The students’ perception toward the implementation of the semiotic method for teaching and learning poetry is collected by questionaire
Summary
It is generally known that to understand the meaning of poetry is truly difficult to do for the students and the lecturers as well It is really the most difficult subject to do among other literary works such as drama, prose, short story and, etc. This may happen becuase the poetry has its unique and distinctive features such as physical structure, linguistic features and mental structure as well. Before the language is used as medium for poetry, the language itself has already its own meaning following the language rules and patterns which must be known and mastered by the students For this reasons, Premigner in as quoted by (Pradopo, 1994) in Jabrohim, ed (2001) states that the meaning of language before it is used as medium for literary work (poetry), is called the first oder semiotics
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