Analysis of Handouts as Media in an Inductive Approach to Promote Students' Grammatical Proficiency at MAN 1 Lamongan

Mastering grammar influences both other language systems and language skills, but some problems happen during grammar learning. Thereby, some strategies and media have to be carried out to make a more effective learning process. This research used a descriptive qualitative study that aimed to examine the handouts preference and the use of handouts as media to promote students’ grammatical proficiency. This study used questionnaires, observation checklists, and interview guidelines to collect the data. The finding showed that the students prefer to have the gapped type in an inductive approach to promote students’ grammatical proficiency, which allows the students to analyze and complete the gaps during the learning process. This study also found the use of handouts in the inductive approach. The use of handouts is beneficial both for the teacher and the students in the inductive approach implementation. The handouts were used by the teacher in the inductive approach to instruct and explain the lessons to the students, to give the students tasks in order to check the students’ understanding and learning outcomes, and to maintain good classroom interactions between the students-teacher as well as the students-student. In addition, the handouts were used by the students in the inductive approach implementation to learn and understand the grammar lessons by actively reading the lessons in handouts, transforming the grammar patterns through the task in handouts as well as the procedure of the inductive teaching approach, and exercising the students to be more active and easier to understand the lessons during the learning process.