IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ENGLISH VOCABULARY MASTERY THROUGH “RANDOM PICTURES” (A Classroom Action Research for the Eighth Grade Students of MTs N Boyolali in the Academic Year 2015/2016)
| Main Authors: | Indra, Pujiyanto, Dr. H., Giyoto, M. Hum. |
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| Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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, 2017
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http://eprints.iain-surakarta.ac.id/1236/1/PDF%20FULL%20TEXT%20IMPROVING%20STUDENTS.pdf http://eprints.iain-surakarta.ac.id/1236/ |
Daftar Isi:
- Indra Pujiyanto. 2017. Improving Student’s English Vocabulary Mastery Through “Random Picture” (A Classroom Action Research for Eight Grade Students of MTs N 1 Boyolali in the Academic Year of 2015/2016). Thesis. English Education Department, Islamic Education and Teacher Training Faculty. IAIN Surakarta. Advisor : Dr. H. Giyoto, M. Hum Key Words : Vocabulary, Random Picture The problems of the research are How good is the implementation of teaching vocabulary using random pictures and What are the strengths and weaknesses of the implementation of random pictures for vocabulary mastery in the eighth grade students at MTs N Boyolali in the academic year 2015/2016. The research subject is the Eight Grade Students of MTs N 1 Boyolali. The objectives of the research are to know how good the implementation of teaching vocabulary using random pictures and to find out the strengths and weaknesses of the implementation of random pictures of vocabulary mastery at eighth grade students at MTs N Boyolali in the academic year 2015/2016. The research was Classroom Action Research (CAR). The research was conducted in MTs N 1 Boyolali, which is located Jl. Kemuning No. 32 Boyolali. The population was The population of this research is the eighth grade students in MTs N Boyolali that consisted of 10 classes. The sample of the research is class VIII G. The researcher chose the sample by using cluster random sampling technique. The data was collected by using pre-test, treatment and post-test. The analysis qualitative data use in this research was the observation of student’s activities during teaching learning process, and the interview before and after Classroom Action Research (CAR). The result of this research showed that firstly, Random Pictures could improve the students’ Vocabulary Mastery. This improvement was proven by the findings after the research was conducted. The findings were: the students could answer questions about descript the picture correctly, they could determine the thing that descript “picture”, they could summarize the material of descriptive text, and then the score of vocabulary mastery get improve. Those improvements caused by the implementation of Random Pictures are strengthened by the mean score of pre-test and post-test 2. The mean score gets improved from the pre-test to post-test 2. The students get 60.89 in the pre-test and 84 in the post-test 2. There are only 20.54 % students who reach the passing grade (70) in the pre-test. Meanwhile there are 89.47 % students who reach the passing grade on the post-test 2. The improvement of the students who achieve the passing grade is 68.93 %. From those reasons above, it can be concluded that Random Pictures was able to improve the students’ vocabulary mastery. Secondly, the students gave good response towards the implementation of Random Pictures in Vocabulary Mastery. It was proved by the result of questionnaire which showed that 77.14 % students like the implementation of Random Pictures for Vocabulary Mastery.