IMPROVING STUDENTS' VOCABULARY MASTERY THROUGHWORD WALL(Classroom Action Research on the First Grade Students of SMP N 2Tuntang in Academic Year 2012/2013)

NURHAMIDA, DEWI (2012) IMPROVING STUDENTS' VOCABULARY MASTERY THROUGHWORD WALL(Classroom Action Research on the First Grade Students of SMP N 2Tuntang in Academic Year 2012/2013). Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Abstract

This research is a study about improving vocabulary mastery through word wall.The aim of this research is to find whether word wall can improve the student'sinterest toward English teaching and to find out word wall can improve thevocabulary mastery. Vocabulary is one of the language aspects that veryimportant for studying English. Bu~ most of the students in junior high school asthe beginners in learning and mastering lesson get much difficulty to learn Englishespecially in vocabulary. Therefore, the researcher would like to try word wallmethods to solve some problems that experienced by most students. The subjectsof the research are the first grade students of SMP N 2 Tuntang in academic year2012)2013. Main question will be answered in this research are (1) How is theprocess of teaching vocabulary by using word wall?, (2) How is the students'mastery on vocabulary before using word wall?, and (3) How is the students'mastery on vocabulary after using word wain To answec the question, thereseareher- used a classroom action research as a method in this research. Theresearcher also uses pre-test and post-test in the teaching learning process. It usestwo cycles. Each cycle comprised of three meeting. The finding shows that the t­test calculation from the result of pre-test and post-test in cycle I is 8,4 and incycle II is 13,77. Both of them is greater the t-table with n=34 is 2,04. It meansthat use of word wall method can improve the students' vocabulary mastery.

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