IJECA International Journal of Education & Curriculum Application http://journal.ummat.ac.id/index.php/IJECA ISSN 2614-3380 | Vol. 5, No. 2, August 2022 87 The Effectiveness Smart Chart to Improve the Students Understanding in Linguistic Caltira Rosiana 1 , Triana Wuri Cahyanti 2 1,2 English Education, STKIP PGRI Nganjuk, Indonesia caltirarosiaa@stkipnganjuk.ac.id ABSTRACT Keywords: Smart Chart; Station; English Linguistic. Difficult in understanding the scientific book, the monotonous learning method and uninteresting way to learn the Linguistic was the classic problem which never resolved up to now. The purposes of this research are to cover the students’ problems in understanding Morphemes and Syntax Material based in virtual learning, reduce the students’ pressure and Increase the students’ motivation to learn Morphemes and Syntax material using Smart Chart. In implication, this research using experimental research with one group pre-test and post-test. The research was done for the English Department Students by using population is 32 students whose taken Morpheme and Syntax subject. This research designed was suitable which education atmosphere in this era. The technique of sampling is using purposive sampling as the collecting data. Even the lecturer must be working hard and need more time to prepare the learning process, the students show the value table is 1.696 and value of t-test is 20.42. It means that Smart Chart Technique is effective and the students got good achievement. Article History: Received: 20-03-2022 Revised : 24-04-2022 Accepted: 30-04-2022 Online : 13-05-2022 This is an open access article under the CC–BY-SA license https://doi.org/10.31764/ijeca.v5i2.8175 ——————————  —————————— A. INTRODUCTION The experts of linguistic claimed that the linguistic have evolutions because of unclear terminology of nature language (Crossley, 2020). To avoid the negative evolutions, they should designed the linguistic descriptions and keep up the linguistic understanding of the emergence of speech in the future. The gestures roles, the vocal apparatus, cognition, syntax, and social interaction in the emergence of language should be focus to study for the university students, and all of it include on linguistic area, especially on morphology and syntax (Mondada, 2016). Knowing the nature of language from the small part like sounds and meaning, include the morphology and syntax which should study by the students, called linguistic which concerned with aspect of grammar (Rosiana, 2021). If we thought about the language, we realized that oral spoken and written has their structure. The structure of English language made up with a set of rules, which call as grammar. Hence, the levels of grammar understanding do not just from using the tenses and its structure for the university students’. The linguistics subject does not as simple as grammar from the surface, it is more than it. The branch of linguistic and its aspect need attention to study in particular morpheme and syntax. Morpheme is study about the formation and composition of words. The focus this study about words which decomposed into