The Effectiveness of Word Wall Media in Improving the Fifth Year Students Mastery on Vocabulary at SDN. 04 Sumberbendo, Pucanglaban, Tulungagung

Nadhiroh, Umi (2010) The Effectiveness of Word Wall Media in Improving the Fifth Year Students Mastery on Vocabulary at SDN. 04 Sumberbendo, Pucanglaban, Tulungagung. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

Key word: media, vocabulary mastery, and using word wall. Word wall is simple and easy media to use. It is cheap but interesting. It is suitable for the school which has limited media to teach English. The teacher doesn’t need to spend too much money for making teaching media. Word wall is a one of media that will help teacher easier to teach vocabulary. It is not just word that is put on the wall, but it is an organize word that will help students get new words easier. By using word wall, the teacher will be helped when they teach vocabulary and hopefully, the students will be easier to improve their vocabulary mastery. The problems of the study: (1) How is the students’ mastery on vocabulary before taught by using word wall? (2) How is the students’ mastery on vocabulary after taught by using word wall? (3) Is there any significant difference between students’ mastery on vocabulary before and after taught by using word wall? The purposes of the study: (1) To know the students’ mastery on vocabulary before taught by using word wall.(2) To know the students’ mastery on vocabulary after taught by using word wall.(3) To know the significant difference between students’ mastery on vocabulary before and after taught by using word wall. This research used pre-experimental design. This research intended to investigate the influence of word wall as media in teaching vocabulary to the fifth year students of SDN. 04 Sumberbendo, Pucanglaban. The research used form of one-group, pretest-posttest design. The methods of collecting data were: test, observation, documentation, and interview, but the main data are the student’s score of test. The techniques of data analysis were the qualitative data and quantitative data. The data from qualitative data were taken from conducting observation, interview, and documentation. The data from quantitative data were taken from conducting test and was analyzed by using formulation of t- test. Research findings: 1) The students’ mastery on vocabulary before taught by using word wall are: 6 students get insufficient score, 1 student gets sufficient score, 3 students get good score, and nobody gets very good and excellent score. It means that there are 60% students get insufficient score, 10% students get sufficient score, 30% students get good score and 0% students who get very good and excellent score in mastering vocabulary before taught by using word wall. 2) The students’ mastery on vocabulary after taught by using word wall are: 2 students get insufficient score, nobody gets sufficient score, 2 students get good score, 5 students get very good score, and 1 student gets excellent score. It means that there are 20% students get insufficient score, 0% students get sufficient score, 20% students get good score, 50% students get very good score, and 10% students who get excellent score in mastering vocabulary after taught by using word wall. The students’ mastery on vocabulary is improved. 3) The significant difference between students’ mastery on vocabulary before and after taught by using word wall: The result showed that (6,469 > 2,262). It means that there were any significant differences between score of pretest and posttest. It is known that the students’ scores are improving significantly. Discussion: The used of word wall will significant if . Data analysis shows that (6,469 > 2,262), so Ho is rejected or Ha is accepted. There were any significant differences between score of pretest (before taught by using word wall) and posttest (after taught by using word wall). It can be concluded that the students get good achievement in mastering vocabulary after taught by using word wall. The students vocabulary mastery improve and significantly better than before taught by using word wall, so teaching vocabulary by using word wall is effective to improve students’ mastery on vocabulary.

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