The effectiveness of using context clues on the students’ vocabulary mastery of the fourth grade at MI AL-AZHAAR Bandung – Tulungagung in the academic year 2013/2014

Qonita, Selvia Binti (2014) The effectiveness of using context clues on the students’ vocabulary mastery of the fourth grade at MI AL-AZHAAR Bandung – Tulungagung in the academic year 2013/2014. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

Keywords: Effectiveness, context clues, vocabulary. A context clue is a technique of inferring meaning of unfamiliar words based on the context. It can be done by combining our knowledge of English or simply look at the relationship between unfamiliar words with the other words, clauses, sentences, or paragraph. This is what we call guessing meaning from the context. Guessing meaning from the context is the most profitable way to teach English vocabulary. The formulations of the research problem are: 1) How is students’ vocabulary before being taught by using context clues? 2) How is students’ vocabulary after being taught by using context clues? 3) Is there any significance different scores of the students before and after being taught by using context clues? The purposes of the study are to: 1) Find out students’ vocabulary score before being taught by using context clues, 2) Find out students’ vocabulary score after being taught by using context clues, 3) Find out significance different score before and after being taught by using context clues. Research method: 1) the research design is pre-experimental design using quantitative approach, 2) the population of this study are all students of the fourth grade at MI AL-AZHAAR Bandung – Tulungagung in the academic year 2013/2014, 3) the sample is IV-C’s class consisting 20 students, 4) the research instrument is test, 5) the technique of data analysis is t-test. The result shows that the total of students’ scores before being taught using context clues is 428, while the total score after being taught using context clues is 525. The tcount = 10.960 whereas ttable with significant level 5% was 2.093. So, tcount was greater than ttable . This means that Ha which states that there is significant effect in using context clues for teaching vocabulary mastery to fourth grade students at MI AL-AZHAAR Bandung – Tulungagung in the academic year 2013/2014 is accepted. Whereas, Ho, which states that there is no significant effect of using context clues and pictures is rejected. In other words, context clues is effective used as an alternative way for teaching vocabulary to the students at elementary level.

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