U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 3, No 5 (2014): U-JET

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY THROUGH WORD WALL

Ridho Istianto (Universitas Lampung)
Huzairin Huzairin (Unknown)
Basturi Hasan (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
23 May 2014

Abstract

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah: untuk menyelidiki apakah Word Wall dapat meningkatkan penguasaan kosa kata siswa. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain one group pretest-posttest. Subyek penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas empat B SDIT Wahdatul Ummah Metro. Hasil tes menunjukkan bahwa adanya peningkatan nilai rata-rata dari pretest dan posttest yang mencapai 27.07. Nilai rata-rata pretest 54.00 sedangkan posttest 81.07. Analisa yang dilakukan menggunakan t-test menunjukkan t-ratio -12.500 dan t-table -2.060. Dengan membandingkan t-ratio dan t-table dimana t-ratio lebih rendah dari t-table yang menunjukkan adanya peningkatan kosa kata yang signifikan. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa Word Wall dapat meningkatkan penguasaan kosa kata siswa.  Sehingga Word Wall dapat direkomendasikan sebagai teknik pengajaran alternatif dalam pengajaran kosa kata. The objective of the research is to find out whether there is a significant improvement of students’ vocabulary achievement after being taught through word wall. This research was conducted using one group pretest-posttest design in which analyzed by using t-test. The subject of there research were students of IVB of SDIT Wahdatul Ummah. The result of the test showed that there is an increase of 21.07 calculated from pretest and posttest. The mean of pretest is 54.00 while posttest is 81.07. The result of t-test showed that t-ratio -12.500 and t-table 2.060. By comparing t-ratio and t-table, it was found that t-ratio is higher than t-table. It can be concluded that Word Wall may give positive effect in improving students’ vocabulary mastery so that Word Wall can be recommended as an alternative on in teaching vocabulary. Keywords: content word, noun, verb, vocabulary, word wall

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...