| dc.description.abstract | In the field of language teaching, vocabulary is the language resource.
Students have to know vocabularies to produce sentences. Thus, the aim of this
study was to find out the students’ ability of vocabulary learning by using picture
card as a media or without using picture card as a media, and whether picture card
could improve students’ vocabulary mastery or not.
This study employed quasi-experimental research design. The
experimental class was taught by using picture cards, and the control class was not
taught by using picture cards. The populations in seventh grade students of Mts
Al-Khoirot Karangsuko consist of 215 students; the sample was 40 students (20
students’ experimental class and 20 students controlled class). Moreover, this
research was conducted through the following procedures: giving pretest,
applying treatments, and giving posttest. The data analyzed in this research was
gathered through test, after getting the score from the test, score was analyzed and
processed by using statistic data calculation of T-test formula by using SPSS. The
result of the research proved that there was a difference between the mean score
of th experimental class and the control class.
Based on the data analysis, the significant column value of t-test was 0.003
it was less than 0.05, it indicated that the result of t-test analysis was significant.
In addition, the results simply contribute to make students became more
enthusiastic and active doing the learning process. This was also giving the
evidence for this study the picture card technique, so the teacher can pick the
appropriate technique to achieve the goal of teaching learning process, especially
in mastering vocabulary. The result of this study was shown that picture card
could give effect for students’ vocabulary learning due to the test score of
experimental group was higher than the control group. Accordingly, related to the
result of this experimental research, the researcher concludes that picture card can
be used as the alternative teaching media to improve students’ vocabulary learning
in the seventh grade of Junior High School. | en_US |
